WITH 4200 HENS IS 



Another point worth making: If you are buying a 

 place on which there are some old buildings (chicken 

 houses or any other kind) and if your capital is limited 

 or you wish to determine whether or not the work suits 

 you, you can easily adapt them for use for a year or two. 

 The writer made a perfectly satisfactory brooder house 

 out of two old sheds, 7x12 feet, 6 feet high in front and 

 4 feet in the rear, by tearing out the fronts of both and 

 placing them nose to nose, making one building 12x14. 

 There were several such sheds on the place. Two more 

 were set twelve feet apart, the intervening space was 

 roofed over, the back was connected up, resulting in one 

 building 7x36; a "porch" 5 feet wide was run along the 

 front (which was left wide open), sloping away from the 

 main house, which kept out the rain and wind and the 

 whole resulted in a very comfortable house 12x36 feet 

 in which 350 hens were kept. A little ingenuity, or a day's 

 'wages to some good carpenter, might easily save you a 

 lot of money at the start. 



Sand-papered and varnish finish are not a necessary 

 adjunct to success. What you need primarily is a house 

 in which you can absolutely control the inflow and outgo 

 of air and which will keep out storms and rain. The de- 

 tailed description of our buildings may serve as a useful 

 guide as to the necessary features even though you do not 

 adopt the plans as a whole. It is for this reason they are 

 given, not with the idea that we have the only proper 

 scheme of housing. 



Should you use or adapt old buildings one thing in 

 particular you must do — they must be most thoroughly 

 disinfected. This is best accomplished by spraying with 



