IN THE POULTRY YARD. 59 
fjous: Building. 
T write, I had built and used movable chicken houses, and 
was greatly prejudiced in. their favor. At first, therefore, 
‘I:decided to have all my houses movable, so as to avoid any ne- 
‘cessity for cleaning the floors. If made movable, the ground on 
which they stood, might be cleaned by simply plowing it and plant- 
ing crops. But, on working out my plans, I soon found that houses 
which would be readily portable, would be too small for my present 
purpose, and that if made large enough and movable at the same 
time, they could not be properly fixed up so as to resist the winter’s 
cold without a great-deal of trouble. Morever the glass leanto shed, 
‘upon which I set so much value, would be a very difficult thing to 
move without taking it all apart. 
OF course I might have adopted houses built on a model slic 
~would allow me to take the entire house to pieces, move it to its 
new location, and put it together again. This, however, would 
stake too much time and labor, so I decided to make my large 
houses stationary and with sufficient capacity to hold 75 to -100 
fowls each. The houses and glass shéds were to have clay floors, 
swhich I intended to clean frequently, and the yards were to be 
‘moved from front to rear, or from side to side, as might be found 
desirable. 
>: For breeding pens I would need a smaller house—one that would 
accommodate comfortably seven fowls—six hens and a cock. For 
sucha small flock, a large house, unless artificially warmed, is cold 
.. and cheerless, and to warm a house for seven birds would be a waste 
of fuel.and labor. 1 theretore decided to make the breeding houses 
“small and very warm, but this could be done and still have them 
easily portable. 
: ‘In. addition ‘to.pens for strictly breeding purposes, I would need 
