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size. The front was closed in with wire netting. At 

 the rear a space two by six feet in size was partitioned 

 off for a roosting room. In each of these pens twelve 

 hens are kept. During a very severe winter only one 

 hen was frozen, and this hen by accident did not get 

 into the roosting room at night. The floor is kept 

 covered with sand and litter and, fowls do not seem to 

 mind such close confinement. In summer they are 

 placed in pens six by twelve feet in size and two feet 

 high, built of wire netting. A frame iour feet square 



FIG. l6 BARREL STAVE HOUSE 



and three feet high is covered with tarred paper, in 

 which a roost is placed. These are moved weekly to 

 fresh ground. Hens are fed heavily on oats and other 

 grains and lay well from spring to fall, at which time 

 they have been fed fat and are killed and marketed. 



A suburban poultry house shown in Figures i& 

 and 19 is located in a Boston suburb, on a lot sixty 

 feet wide by no deep. The ground is the cleanest 

 of sand, with a hard gravel bottom. The house is set 

 in the middle of the strip, with two runs, at the east 

 and west ends. A cellar four feet deep, sixteen feet 



