WHERE TO KEEP FOWLS 



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set in mortar. Mr. Lambert has several of these houses 

 which cost less than $75 each. From 100 to 125 fowls. 

 are kept in each house. 



A Continuous House — An ideal house for the in- 

 tensive system of poultry culture is shown in Figure 

 14. This house is built in -two sections with a story 

 and a half building in the middle which is used as a 

 feed, storeroom, incubator cellar, etc. Such a building 

 can be made of any length desired. The yards attached 

 are necessarily long and narrow. A three-foot alley at 



FIG. 14 HOUSE AND YARDS AT NEW YORK EXPERIMENT- 

 STATION 



the rear of the house is generally considered essential 

 in a long building for ease in doing the work, although 

 this is a very expensive addition and many poultry 

 keepers find it cheaper and fully as satisfactory to go 

 through the pens. 



A Cheap Structure for Fifty Hens — A house built 

 recently by the author at a cost of $45 for material is 

 shown in Figure 15. It is twelve feet wide, thirty- 

 one and one-half feet long, front studs six feet two. 

 inches and rear studs five feet. It is single boarded, 

 of matched boards, covered with asphalt roofing paper 



