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the ordinary green-house roofing, that is lapped upon the edges; 

 This affords light and warmth from the sun's rays, and has 

 been found most economical and comfortable. The wing may 



FlOl — A CHEAP AND GOOD PODI/TET HOUSB. 



be of any length. Earth floors beneath the roosting places ara 

 economical and! easily cleaned. Half round roosts of large 

 sized spruce poles are the most comfortable, and these should 

 be movable, to set upon cross-stilts, not over two or three feet 

 from the ground floor. If these roosts are once a week, in 

 warm weather, wet with kerosene, the process will serve the 

 double purpose of keeping the roosts free from vermin, and 

 the bodies of the fowls from this same annoyance. Access to 

 a gravelled walk or yard at the rear, in fine weather, is indis- 

 pensable. A grass enclosure, if practicable, upon which fowls 

 can range daily, is a desideratum in summer. In the rear of 

 the above described house, was alloted half an acre for this 

 purpose. In the absence of these two last mentioned almost 

 necessities, fresh gravel and.sand, broken shells, &c., and green 

 food of some kind, as cabbage leaves, ruta-baga tops, turnip 

 leaves, grass, or the like, should frequently be thrown within 

 their reach, which they will devour with avidity. 



The house and ground-plan here described, (figures 1 and 

 2) may be used for laying hens during the faU and winter, and 

 for sitters in early spring time. From such a house the chick- 

 ens, when strong enough, may be transferred to the open or 

 " summer " coops mentioned hereafter, and shown in figures 

 3, 4, and 5. It must not be forgotten that pure air, and plenty 

 of it, when not freezing cold, is as desirable to fowls as to man. 

 A dust-bath formed of leached wood ashes, is a luxury for 



