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tended to be provided with a door and covered entirely with one- 

 inch mesh poultry netting. 



All cages can . be made small as compared to ordinary poultry 

 houses. They need not be over four to six feet high. The roosts 

 need not be over eighteen inches from the ground. The fowls are 

 shut out of the cage in the day time, as it is only designed to afford 

 them safe roosting quarters. 



Nests elevated on posts or "stilts" may be placed about the poul- 

 try runs. These nests should be simple, easily cleaned, roofed 

 boxes. 



Mr. Stoddard recommends making these cage roosts in any form 

 which may be convenient, triangular, cylindrical, square, or hex- 

 agon. Writing about the cage roost, he says: 



"These cages can be moved and partly or completely inverted 



H. H. STODDAED'S WIEE CAGE BOOST. 

 Eig. 24. — H. H. Stoddard's wire cage roost. This is diagram for the 

 "A" or triangular cage roost and shows construction of frame. The 

 frame is to be entirely "covered, top, sides, ends and bottom, with 1-inch 

 mesh hexagon wire poultry netting. A, A, are telephone wires to support 

 edge of wire netting, B, B, are wires to support the roosts. 0, C, are the 

 roosts. Front roost should be provided with a wide door. 



each day to permit the sun to strike tlie under side of the perches, 

 an advantage the usual roost does not possess. There is the very 

 minimum of woodwork to harbor parasites or any disease germs. 

 "Imagine the luxury of seeing rows of fowls clean and fresh 

 looking on their perches, with no tainted quarters and no more 

 possibility of inhaling the smallest quantity of second-hand air 

 than a robin or blackbird in a tree. It is ideal. A soaking ram 



