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need be solid, as strips of wood back and front keep them 
firm. 
‘Thorough creosoting or tarring outside will preserve the wood, 
and tend to keep down parasites. It is an economy to cover the 
roof with felting. 
«Here are details of a useful house. If they are used for colony 
flocks and are to be removed occasionally, the better plan will be 
to erect them in sections—that is, the roof, back, front and sides 
should be made separately and bolted together. In that case 
28 ft. additional scantling and the necessary bolts and nuts will be 
required. For moving purposes it is a useful plan to fit the house 
with axles from which the wheels can be removed when the house 
is in position, one set of wheels thus serving for several houses. 
«A useful size is 8ft. square, 64 ft. high infront, 5 ft. high at back; 
the roof, back, and ends solid; the front, in which is a door, 
boarded up 2 ft., with wire-netting above and a fixed shutter in 
front 2 ft. deep as a rain-guard. The capacity of such a house is 
16 adult fowls, providing 3} square feet of floor space for each bird. 
«« Materials used.—Scantling for frame, 2 in. by 2 in.; boarding, 
white deals, 7 in. by ? in., tongued and grooved ; wire-netting in 
front, 1 in. mesh ; one pair 4 in. butt hinges for door, and lock or 
catch ; a supply of 13, 2, and 24 in. French nails; 24 ft. run of 
felting for roof; and 9 ft. of guttering to be fixed at back of roof, 
with the necessary supports. 
« Frame.—Front : two uprights, 64 ft. each ; two horizontals, 
8 ft. each ; four horizontals, 2 ft. 9 in. each; two uprights for 
door posts, 6 ft. each ; frame for door, 193 ft. Back: two up- 
rights, 5 ft. each ; three horizontals, 8 ft. each. Two ends: two 
to support roof, 84 ft. each ; two horizontals, 8 ft. each. Roof : 
one cross tie, 8 ft. T'wo perches, each 8 ft. The total is 162} ft. 
run. A little allowance must be made for shaping the tops of the 
uprights for the slope of the roof, and for supports of the dropping- 
board under the perches. 
“‘Match-boarding required will be :—Front, boarded up 23 ft., 
including door, 20 sq. ft.; back, 40 sq. ft. ; two ends, 92 sq. ft. ; 
roof (allowing to project over all round), 764 sq. ft. ; shutter, 8 ft. 
