SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
be converted into a poultry house by add- 
ing roosts and nests to it. If it is large, 
it can be converted into an apartment 
house by dividing it into rooms. The 
partitions may be made of poultry wire 
or lumber as desired. I think poultry 
wire is the best for such partitions. 
The rooms in an apartment poultry 
house should be about ten feet square. 
Such a room will accommodate from twen- 
ty to thirty hens nicely. Poultry are not 
very particular about what kind of a house 
they have. The main thing with them is 
to be comfortable and be well fed and 
watered and kept clean. Whether the 
walls are painted and varnished or rough 
and bare does not matter to them. 
If you live in a Northern State, the 
walls of your poultry house should be 
double and well built. In the Southern 
States single-wall houses are all right. 
Whatever locality you live in, if you are 
intending to build a new poultry house, it 
is a good plan to ask your agricultural 
experiment station for advice as to the 
best house for your locality. They usually 
have bulletins containing cuts, plans and 
specifications for such houses, which are 
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