LESSONS ON POULTRY FOE RURAL SCHOOLS. 11 
LESSON THREE. 
SUBJECT: POULTRY HOUSES AND YARDS. 
OCTOBER. 
Topics for study. — Divide the study if some of the pupils are to 
construct new houses. 
(1) Old houses: Drain the floor, replace earth and litter with fresh 
material. Procure sufficient light and ventilation. Clean out all 
rubbish. Disinfect roosts, nests, and other equipment. Whitewash 
the inside walls of the house. Be sure roof will not leak. Recon- 
struct any roosts, nests, etc., which are unsuitable. 
(2) New houses: What location for light and drainage? What 
relation to yards and other buildings? How much floor space? 
Style of house. Best roof for the location. What arrangement of 
Fig. C— A model of a poultry house used on the Government farm at Beltsville, Md., suggesting how 
pupils may make models. 
doors, windows, and open spaces? Ventilation how? Best arrange- 
ment of nests, roosts, and equipment. 
(3) Yards and fences: Value of free range. Value of alternate 
yard system, one growing crop and one being pastured. Relation 
of fencing to the breed of fowls. Fencing for or against chicks. 
Fall green feed in yards. Fall sowing in alternate yard for spring 
feed (see p. 28). Value of the orchard as a range. 
References. — Farmers' Bulletins 574; 287, pp. 7-19; 355, pp. 21-25; 
682; 480, pp. 8-16. Nearly every State has literature on houses 
adapted to its own climate. 
Home projects. — Each pupil should arrange at once for the proper 
housing of his flock. Have each apply the lessons learned from the 
references. Keep daily accounts of expense, feed, labor, and income, 
vSee forms pages 30-32, 
