CHAPTER III. 

 Hints and Helps on Building 



XPEEIEjSTCE in carpenter work need not he ex- 

 tensive in order to build an open-front poultry 

 house. Anyone who has any aptness for learning 

 how to handle tools can soon master the essentials 

 of house building and will not find the work of 

 construction very difficult. 



Eight here, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, two city girls 

 liave started in the poidtry business and are making a success of 

 it. They had had no experience with poultry or in carpenter work, 

 but they determined to build their own poultry houses and they did 

 it and did it well. If two inexperienced city girls can frame, Ijoarcl 

 in, and shingle a building and make a good job of it, others can 

 certainly learn to do it and the man or well grown boy who thinlcs 

 that he can't, ought to brace up and try. 



The tools required are not many; a full tool kit is mighty handy 

 to have but is not necessary. The following will serve the purpose 

 of the amateur builder : 



Spirit level with plumb. 



Folding two-foot rule. 



Steel square. 



Chalk line and chalk. 



Carpenter's pencil. 



Nail hammer. 



Nail set. 



Shingling hatchet. 



Kachet bit brace. 



One-inch bit and a bit of same diameter as window bolts. 



Medium hand saw. 



Eip saw. 



Compass saw. 



Screwdriver to fit bit brace. 



Small monkey wrench. 



Combination pliers. 



Draw knife. 



Plane. 



One-half inch chisel. 



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