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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
March, 1911 
Planning a Poultry House 
By James J. Newland 
TYPE of poultry house which has given 
good results winter and summer, and 
which has been adopted by a number of 
practical poultry men in a South Jersey 
section is as follows: It is built on 4x4 
inch or 4x6 inch sills, measures twenty 
feet in length, fourteen feet in width, 
rear height, and five feet in front with 
feet 
eighteen inches over- 
eight 
hang, and_ seven- 
eighth inch  sheath- 
ing covered with two 
or three ply roofing 
paper. The venti- 
lator is placed over 
the roosting area. 
The front is open to 
the weather during 
winter and summer, 
and is covered only 
with poultry wire. 
These houses can be 
moved on_ rollers 
over the orchard or 
elsewhere on the 
farm when found ex- 
pedient, leaving a 
well fertilized area 
at the last stand; a 
good plan where 
farms are small and 
intensive methods are 
followed. The house 
provides for the care 
of about seventy-five 
birds and where sev- 
eral units are placed 
in an orchard, the 
benefit in destroying 
AVS 
YX 1 STRIPS 
from side studs and easily removable for cleaning. The 
perches are of about 114 inch cedar and can be destroyed 
and replaced at a trifling cost. They do not touch the 
side walls, being stayed by stiff wires. The fowls are com- 
fortable when confined to the house.’ Fresh water is sup- 
plied in buckets, at night and morning. A hopper feed box 
is placed in each house, with two kinds of feed, and of a 
height sufficient to allow a bag of feed to run into the 
hopper from _ the 
shoulder.. By an an- 
nual coat of white- 
wash, and by mak- 
ing the house: as 
near aim tiehteeas 
possible and by fu- 
migating with for- 
maldehyde gas (the 
small outfit used by 
the Board of Health, 
being low in price 
and profitable where 
much_ poultry is 
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THE SOUTH FRONT IS OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND 
kept), it © canes 
LEAT Ss G . 
OFENINGIE Lia made insect proof 
peas and held in fine 
shape for the birds. 
For use in the more 
northern latitudes, 
the front may need a 
winter closure, or at 
least occasional clo- 
sure, by-a glass or 
partial glass or can- 
vas drop screen, but 
it has not been nec- 
essary here, in Lat. 
39 degrees 30 min- 
utes. 
The diagrammatic 
VW 
MADE OF ’S MATCHED 
STUFF 
NESTS AND BRACKET 
larve, keeping down 
weeds, etc., is appar- 
ent. A door and a 
window can be placed 
on either side. The nest boxes are made in one length, 
divided into nests of 12 inches square, placed on brackets 
SECTION 
HOPPER FEEDER 
Chicks and 
presentation of the 
poultry house is suf- 
ficient in detail and 
form, to enable an 
amateur or dealer to plan and to build housing accommoda- 
tions for poultry that will be useful and ornamental. 
FRONT VIEW 
the Camera 
By Carine Cadby 
3 OUNG animals are always amusing and 
worth watching, but the most wonderful 
and precocious for their age are, perhaps, 
very young chicks. Only the record of 
twenty-four hours behind them, . and 
already they are busily playing the game 
of life. Only one day old, and yet show- 
ing signs of character and individuality, so expressive are 
their actions and so suggestive their looks. The shrewd 
perseverance of this one, intent on pushing to the fore, and 
the quiet humor of the other, content to look on and to 
philosophize. Those little twinkling dark eyes seem to say 
all sorts of things, or is it that they only possess the look 
of intelligence, which deceives one into crediting them with 
so much character, and all the while, underneath, they are 
just the same empty headed little noodles as their mothers 
are always supposed to be and from whom the term “‘hen- 
brained”’ is derived? 
