IN QUANTITY, POK MABKET. 



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cents per pound, paying a profit of 40 per centum at least, on 

 cost, interest on investments, keep and care. 



The open or summer coops described, are constructed of laths 

 or paling-stuff upon all sides, and are protected by a shed roof, 

 battened oyer the seams. The six divisions wUl.make each 

 house about forty feet by twelve. This is cheaply built, but is 

 ample for all the purposes of raising the chickens to marketa- 

 ble condition, from the time they leave the hatching-house 

 with the hen^mothers, as described. 



Six of the compartments (or coops) are under one roof, and 

 four different houses stand at the four angles of an oblong 

 square of land half an acre in extent, thus : 



The winter laying and sitting house, described below, (fig- 

 ures 7 and 8,) may be also used for summer chicken-raising, if 

 desired. The sashes in front can be takien out and lattice- 

 work substituted ; or the frames of the windows can be covered 

 with two-inch mesh-wire screening, which is inexpensive and 

 very durable. By this change the poultry-house is rendered 

 cool and airy, which, for the " heated term," would be found 

 too close and warm, for summer use, with the glass windows. 



The lattice-coops will have already been cleansed, of course, 

 for the reception of the young birds. The entire fixtures in 

 these chicken-houses consist of a water-vessel for each, a feed- 

 box, a low roost upon the brackets, and a dust-box, two feet 

 square for ashes. Into this latter, it has been found a good 

 plan to mix with ashes a handful of powdered sulphur, occasion- 

 ally, which helps to destroy vermin. In a few weeks from their 



