voi,. xxxviii. No. a. 
WHULB No. 1511. 
NEW YORK CITY, JAN. 11, 1879. 
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heavy wire netting meshes about J or f inch 
apart. Thus the sashes could all he pushed out 
of the way in summer time, which would make 
a very airy room, as the ventilation would he 
excellent. The scratching ground should have 
ft good cement or brick-paved floor six inches 
ally closes any draft through the floor, and is 
a good preventive of vermin. 
Such a building a9 this, if built in good 
shape, would cost but a very small amount, 
and would be a good investment as well as a 
source of joy and amusement to any lover of 
DESIGN FOR A HENNERY 
THE OUTLOOK IFOR YOUNG FARMERS IN 
THE WEST, 
PALLI8ER, PALLI8ER & CO., ARCHITECTS, 
BRIDGEPORT, CONN. 
The accompanying design fully illustrates a 
hennery 16 by 20 feet, arranged in two sections, 
so that two kinds of fowls can be kept in it and 
be entirely separate. The building is large 
enough to accommodate about 75 fowls ; the 
nest boxes arc so arranged that they can be 
drawn out into the passage for the purpose of 
getting the eggs, and when not needed hi lay¬ 
ing time, can be put In the reverse way and 
shut off the Inside. This can be done if they 
are used for sitting hens. 
The feed bins are so arranged that they are 
filled at the top from the small loft floored over 
the hall, fattening and setting room. This loft 
would, no doubt, be found useful for storage 
purposes generally. The feed bins being filled 
from the top. let their contents nut. into 
PROFESSOR G. E. MORROW, 
W hat are the prospects for young farmers 
is a question in which, at the least, one million 
of persons in the United States have a very di¬ 
rect, personal interest. The welfare of all 
classes, and the continued prosperity of the na¬ 
tion very largely depend on what the future 
shall prove to be the correct answer ; but for 
the enormously large number of young men 
and young women who are either already en¬ 
gaged in farming or are seriously thinking of 
adopting that as their business, no question 
possesses greater interest. It is not a matter of 
so much moment what are the prospects for 
the next year, or for the next five years—im¬ 
portant as this is; but what is the outlook for 
a long series of years, for the quarter or third 
or half of a century these young people may 
hope to live and work, this is a question to 
which we may well give our closest attention. 
No one of us is a prophet; we can only fore¬ 
tell the future by a study of the present and the 
past. The most casual observation 6hows the 
agriculture of the iKmntry, certainly of the 
West, to be in a depressed condition. Current 
discussion in public and private, shows that 
many farmers are discouraged and somewhat 
despondent a6 to the future—and there is rea¬ 
son for this. Prices for farm products of al¬ 
most all kinds are very low; low in compari¬ 
son with what they have been in past years, 
and low in comparison with those of articles to 
be bought by the farmers. Farm lands are low 
in price. Many of them cannot be sold for 
below the other floor, and should be filled in with 
soil which can be removed and fresh substituted 
as often as desirable. The rest of the floor 
should be laid with good flooring well nailed 
good poultry, and would fill up the spare mo¬ 
ments which might be otherwise wasted. A 
yard on each side can be fenced in with pick¬ 
ets and the lower part of the building can be 
nearly as much as they were purchased for 
during the recent inflation of prices. Many 
farmers have accumulated little or nothing for 
some years; but, instead, have found the mon¬ 
ey needed for interest and taxes more than 
equaling what they could make each year. In 
the aggregate a very large number of farmers 
in the West have been compelled to give up the 
farms on which they had lived for years and 
for which they had partly paid; and still oth¬ 
ers mast look forward to this as the inevitable 
ending of their present struggle. Judging 
from the present alone, we should not predict 
a bright future. 
If, throwing out of view the present and the 
more recent past, we look only to the general 
past of agriculture in this couutry, we would 
make a too favorable prediction for the future; 
for, to a degree we do not always realize, agri¬ 
culture has been wonderfully prosperous in this 
country, with a comparatively few and these 
ehort, exceptional periods. I do not know 
when or where in all the world’s history, there 
has been au equally rapid accumulation of 
property and of the accompaniments of civili¬ 
zation as that which has been going on in our 
Western States during the. last third or quarter 
of a century. It is almost like a fairy tale—a 
land where almost anyone, given only health 
and Industry, could begin with & mere pittance 
and at the end of a score or two of years, find 
himself the possessor of a comfortable compe¬ 
tence. Yet this has been the experience of 
scores of thousands. Men have come from 
other countries to a soil and climate and a sys¬ 
tem of farming of which they knew almost 
nothing; where even the language of the coun- 
a few inches into it. This feeding room is in¬ 
closed with pickets placed three inches apart, 
and covered by the sloping boarding over the 
nest boxes and under the perches, as shown in 
cross section and at dotted lines on plan, p. 28. 
The frame-work of the perches is hinged at 
the top and arranged with hooks so as to raise 
and hang them up to facilitate the cleaning of 
the boards nuderueatli. There arc runs up to 
small platforms which extend from the doors 
leading to the yards to the first or lower perches. 
These runs are placed both ways, starting from 
scratching ground and feed trough. The small 
doors to the yards should be arranged to slide, 
and have cords attached to them so as to be 
opened and shut from the hall at pleasure. 
The side walls of this building ai e 6 feet 6 inch¬ 
es high, and should be sheathed ou both sides 
up to plate level, with narrow matched boards 
placed vertically, having a two-inch air-space 
between, which when filled with mineral wool, 
would render it rat, frost and vermin-proof, at 
a trilling expense. The roof should be shiugled 
iu the ordinary manner on slats. To regu¬ 
late the draft, the ventilators should have shut¬ 
ters which can be operated by cords from the 
hall. The top shelf over nest drawers makes 
a handy and useful place for laying away many 
things when not in use, while the blu, as ar¬ 
ranged to right of entrance, will be found use¬ 
ful both as a blu for meal and as a table when 
the Ud is shut dowu. The wiudows should all 
be arranged to slide sideways into the walla, 
the outside of openings to be protected with 
down, and have a coat of tar and pitch about 
a quarter of au inch thick, on which a sprink¬ 
ling of soil about one inch deep can be put. 
The pitch fills up nil cracks, etc., and effectn- 
hid by bushes, trees and shrubs in the garden. 
The upper part would form a very nice and 
picturesque object in the landscape, which 
would be always pleasant to look at. 
