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usually sent out free to everybody within 
the State. 
Fig. 9 and Fig. 10 show the poultry 
house that we use on our poultry ranch 
out here in New Mexico. This house is 
very simple and cheap, and can be built, 
with a saw and hammer, by almost any- 
body. It fills all requirements for this 
locality, and is all that is needed for lay- 
ing hens or a brooder house for the little 
chicks. You will need several of them if 
you have a large flock. It has a ground 
floor. I am a little partial to ground floors 
for this locality, for the climate is dry and 
sunny, and the floors are very seldom, if 
ever, damp. 
This poultry house, as shown in the 
cuts, has doors both in front and at the 
ends. One door at the end is all that is 
necessary, unless you have some special 
reason for having more. 
The fact that it is more desirable for 
poultry to remain in the same house, from 
the time they are hatched until they are 
sold, makes this combination house about 
all that could be desired. Fowls don’t 
like to be moved from the house in which 
their home has been established. The egg 
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