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MAKING POULTRY PAY 



Figures 2 and 3, is thus described by him in that 

 journal : 



The house can be built of any length desired, the 

 pens and sheds being in groups of two, with doors 

 opening through from pen to pen and from shed to 

 shed, so that the whole house can be passed through 

 without going out of doors. Each roosting room is 

 eight by ten feet, and each shed (adjoining) is ten by 

 ten feet, the front being seven feet high, the back four 

 feet high. The shed having a tight roof, and being 

 tight on the north and west, is all open to the south 

 (when the curtains are up), giving the birds fresh air 



FIG. 2 THE ORIGINAL SCRATCHING SHED HOUSE 



and sunshine, at the same time they are protected 

 from our cold northwest winds. 



Each combined pen and shed is eighteen by ten 

 feet, and will well house twenty-five fowls; and as it 

 is the most economical plan to build upon, it is easv to 

 see that it is by all odds the best for the man Arho 

 has to make his dollars go as far as possible. For 

 these reasons we recommend this compact open shed 

 and roosting pen plan of house as being the best all- 

 around house that can be built. We have 108 feet (in 

 length) of this house on our farm, and find it just 

 about perfect. 



We intend that the top of the sills of our house 

 shall be about a foot above the ground level. The sills 

 are two by four-inch scantling, halved and nailed 



