THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 2 
I So 
4 ONE-HORSE NEW HAMPSHIRE FARM 
Hens and Their House. 
SoiAU Comfort. —It was pretty cold 
this morning, February 6, mercury being 
only 11 degrees above zero. The hens 
bad eaten their warm breakfast, had 
their warm water, sour milk and some 
dry chaff to scratch over; the pigs were 
fed, the barn cleaned out, the cows 
carded and given their morning drink, 
the hoi’se is watered and cleaned, and in 
a barn where it never freezes and enough 
coal and wood in the house for the day. 
The Madame is in the kitchen washing 
milk pans and baking, the dog behind 
the kitchen stove, the big yellow cat is 
l)ehind the sitting room stove, his moth¬ 
er in my easy chair, and I am writing. 
Tjie Hen Business. —I sold $50 worth 
of chickens and fowls last Fall, and last 
Spring had 25 hens sitting and with 
chickens, i wished to raise 100 pullets, 
and as usually only one-half of the 
chicks are pullets and as many of them 
die, I thought I would set hens enough. 
I had 250 chicks hatched, but 100 of them 
died. They would be smart until three 
or four weeks old. I seldom saw any 
sick or drooping ones, but would find 
them dead in the morning. I had the 
chicks in the south end of the henhouse, 
had gravel on the fioor, and kept it 
clean. I kept the hens in coops two feet 
square, with slats in front, and let the 
chicks run where they pleased. A few 
hens with their chickens were put out of 
doors in small coops; but hawks and 
crows got some of them. The crows 
were worse than the hawks, because they 
were bolder. 1 put a scarecrow out, they 
they did not cai-e for that, but at Fig. 
(!0 is a picture of one that did scare. I 
had a piece of corn near the henhouse; 
the chicks stayed in that a good deal of 
the time, and it was a good place for 
them when it got large enough to hide 
them. After all I raised 85 pullets, and 
have 30 hens beside. Only one pullet 
and two or three hens have died since 
last Summer. My hens are not laying 
as well as common, but are doing better 
than most of the hens about here. Yes¬ 
terday they laid 36 eggs. They have not 
been out for five or six weeks, and are 
kept, about 30 each, in pens 10x12 feet. 
The Old House. —When I came, 15 
years ago, I built a henhouse 50x12 feet, 
with a double pitch roof about six feet 
high in front and four feet high in the 
rear. Tarred paper was put on roof and 
sides, the roof shingled and sides clap- 
boarded. It faced the south and had 
five windows of 12 panes, 9x12 glass. It 
had no floor, but was filled in with rocks 
covered with gravel and sand to make 
it dry. It was dry enough, but the rocks 
made a good place for rats lo work, and 
they did so in great shape. I used traps 
and poison, but could not get rid of 
them. I thought the house was too warm 
when the sun was shining, and too cold 
at night or when it was cloudy. I think 
hens will stand a pretty low tempera¬ 
ture if it is an even one. I did not like 
the earth bottom, because it was hard 
to keep clean. When I began to clean 
it out I did not know when to stop, out 
with a floor made of boards I know 
when i strike bottom. 
A New One. —Four or five years ago 
I built a new henhouse, and tore the old 
one down. 1 built about 20 feet south 
of the barn, so that it would be handy 
for water and grain. The new one is 
60 feet long, 12 feet wide, eight feet in 
front and five feet in rear. I used sills 
six inches square, and for studding used 
2x4 joists 12 feet long, sawed both ends 
square and sawed these on a bevel so 
that the rafters would rest on the whole 
width of the plate without cutting the 
rafters any. That is, for three-foot pitch 
I made the front studs 1^2. feet long and 
the back feet long, thus getting out 
a front and a back stud without any 
waste. The studding in front is set the 
right width for windows ol 12 panes of 
8x10 glass, which are 10 feet apart. A 
sill is put in without frames, and casings 
put on outside as usual. 1'he fioor is 
double-boarded, and roof and sides cov¬ 
ered with two thicknesses of paper, and 
the roof and side covered with shingles 
laid five inches to the weather. I used 
windows with a whole sash, or outside 
windows, as they are called here. The 
sill is flush with the sash inside. I 
nailed strongly a piece of board three 
inches square on the studding about six 
inches from top and bottom of windows 
on each side, letting it project an inch 
toward the window, and used wedges to 
keep the windows in place. 
Some Conveniences. —By this ar¬ 
rangement the windows can be raised or 
lowered about two feet, and can be kept 
just where one desires them, or be read¬ 
ily taken out. It is handy about clean¬ 
ing out as one can drive a wagon along¬ 
side or use a wheelbarrow. On the back 
the studding is set the same, but I use 
half windows, and put on outside win¬ 
dows, that being the cold side. There 
are poultry netting frames with hinges 
on the inside of windows, so that the 
windows can be taken out in hot wea¬ 
ther. I use 20 feet of the north end of 
the house for piggery; have a tight par¬ 
tition. The other 40 feet is divided into 
four pens, with boards as high as the 
roosts and poultry netting above and 
doors of the same. The nests run cross¬ 
wise the house two feet from floor, leav¬ 
ing room for doors on front side. The 
nests are covered with platforms three 
feet wide, and roosts six inches above 
platforms. The house faces the east and 
the temperature is more even than with 
a different exposure. By having a floor 
it can be cleaned much better, and I 
know when 1 strike bottom, and rats can 
be kept out. There are small yards at 
back of house, and the hens do not get 
out of them from May 1 to about Au¬ 
gust 1; then they are let out for an hour 
or so at night, until garden stuff is out 
of the way anu then they have free 
range, except that they are not allowed 
in the barn or sheds at any time. Out¬ 
side of the house earth is thrown up as 
high as the bottom of the sills, and the 
weather has to be near zero to freeze 
during the night water that was warm 
the day before. The water is kept in 
five-pound lard pails hung on the parti¬ 
tion about six inches from floor. 
Cold Nights. —We had a very cold 
night. At 11 o’clock last night mercury 
was at seven degrees above zero, and 
wind blowing hard. At six o’clock this 
morning mercury was the same, and 
wind had blown hard all night, and still 
continues. We had two good coal fires 
in the house, and were pretty comfort¬ 
able. I could not help thinking of, and 
pitying the poor animals in the cold 
barns. Nothing froze in our tie-up, it 
had not frozen in henhouse under the 
roosts. In the hogpen it did not freeze 
in the feed trough or on the fiooi-. Last 
night I went out and shoveled snow up 
against the house. It pays to do these 
things if you wish to keep buildings 
warm in sucli weather as we have been 
having lately. 
No Soft Jon.—It keeps one man 
pretty busy to take care of a horse, five 
or six cows, pigs and over 100 hens: 
keep wood and coal in the house, sift 
ashes, churn and make butter one day 
in the week; go to town the next day 
with butter, eggs, etc., and bring back 
whatever is needed in the house, be¬ 
sides going for a load of grain occasion¬ 
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work indoors and out, and makes new 
tools when needed; in fact, does about 
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Why do I feed warm mash to hens at 
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This, with lukewarm water to drink, 
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placed on the floor to pick at, keeps the 
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