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Perfect sanitation, to insure good health. 



Thorough ventilation, without drafts, in all weather. 



An absolutely dry, floor, and one easily cleaned. 



A house that should he rat, bat, cat, mouse and mite proof. 



Cool in summer and fairly warm in winter. , 



A "one man" house where a single helper could do all the work in 

 a short time. This demanded automatic watering, feeding, ease of 

 cleaning and rapidity in gathering eggs from scores of trap nests, 

 making, at the same tim.e, the necessary records. 



A convenient, dry and vermin proof feed room. 



This was something of a contract, but, it has been successfully 

 carried out. 



The fixtures and appliances used in any poultry house will depend 

 upon the owner's taste — and pocketbook. The only vital necessities 

 are sanitary fountains or other easily cleaned receptacles for water; 

 boxes for grit, oyster shells, charcoal and beef scraps; fairly low 

 perches; fairly dark nests, a dust bath, and dropping boards that may 

 be cleaned easily. Given these, with plenty of scratching litter and 

 the hen that will not be a hustling, laying, paying bird is fit only for 

 the market. 



Main house, 22 x 30. Feed room, 12 x 16. "P" is passage way. "A," 

 pens, clear, 6x9. "D," trap nests. "B," bins. "W," windows. Doora 

 as indicated. "F," feed troughs for dry mash, etc. "PR," Sanitary 

 Perches. 



This house is 22 x 30 over all, the feed room being 9 x 16. The 

 entire building rests on 6 inch concrete walls and the floor is of 

 concrete, two inches thick with a half inch top. There is a four-foot 

 alley-way 30 feet long through the main house. Trap nests are con- 



