WHERE TO KEEP FOWLS 



67 



with a flight of steps leading down into a similar hall- 

 way in the cellar, also with a six-foot room on each 

 side of it. In the upper house the nests are two feet 

 from the floor against the hallway partition, and over 

 them the roosting board. A flap in the partition opens 

 all the nests at once for gathering eggs and for 

 cleaning and kerosening nests, and another flap opens 

 the space above the roosting board, so that with a fine 

 rake it can be cleaned off.' The two runs, each twelve 

 by twenty-two feet, are covered in, both front and top, 

 with wire netting and those nettings are nearlv covered 



FIG. 1 8 HOUSE IN A BOSTON SUBURB 



With grapevines, which give a delightful shade in hot 

 weather. The other three sides of each are tight fence 

 or house. 



A very satisfactory house for a large village or 

 city lot is shown in Figure 20. This is a double house, 

 twenty to twenty-five feet wide and of any length 

 desired. It is built in two sections, one projecting 

 three feet above the other. In this three-foot space 

 are windows facing south, which provide light and sun 

 for the rear pens. Such a house should be four feet 

 high in front with a pitch of two and one-half feet to 



