THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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HANDY POULTRY HOUSE. 
Paht I. 
More farmers and poultrymen, in a 
small way, make a failure of chickens 
because of a neglect of nature than from 
any other cause. Too many who contem¬ 
plate raising a few hundred, believe that 
the only way is to have an incubator and 
brooder. They should get rid of that no¬ 
tion if they want to get started right. I 
gain nothing by championing natural in¬ 
cubation. It is my aim to state plainly 
what I have done and what can be done 
by the average farmer. This is written 
to farmers and for farmers and not for 
the benefit of large commercial poultry- 
men. The owner of such a plant would 
latigh at the idea of hatching his stock 
by the natural method, ana yet, I believe, 
it could be done without much*.difficulty 
and with increased vitality of stock reared 
by the natural method. What I wish to 
emphasize is that any farmer can add a 
few hundred dollars to his income by 
keeping 200 hens and giving fnem right 
care. The market is always here. The 
thing to do is to get the product. Fifteen 
to 20 dozen eggs to sell each week will 
go a long way toward paying the weekly 
grocery bill. The product can be sold 
at the door in nine-tenths of the homes 
in New England and at good prices. I 
am selling year-old roosters, fattened 
and softened for special trade at from 
$1.50 to $2 each. 
My equipment consists only of such 
houses and coops as anyone can build at 
small cost and the initial cost is what 
must be kept down. Don’t spend a lot of 
money for fancy houses, etc. Common 
sense is a valuable thing in .the poultry 
business. Simplicity is the idea to keep 
in mind. Hens do not appreciate silver 
platters or gold-plated drinking vessels. 
The V-shaped trough, made at an ex¬ 
pense of five cents, is just as good as the 
elaborate automatic? dry-mash feeders 
and fountains advertised at from $1.50 to 
$10 each. Go into the chicken business 
to make money. Use common sense, 
just the same as you do in planting pota¬ 
toes. Don’t be afraid to feed them after 
they are four days old and you’ll get 
the dollars. 
In Fig. 108 is shown a properly con¬ 
structed series of nests for 15 sitting 
hens. This miniature house is 19 feet 
long, floor 20 inches wide, 16 inches un¬ 
der eaves at back and 20 inches in front. 
It is partitioned off into 15 nest boxes, 
each 20x14 inches. The doors are hinged 
at top with a screen door hinge. When 
raised it remains up and when down the 
spring holds it shut. Put a fence all 
around this incubator, allow the hens to 
come off once a day to eat and wallow 
in the dirt, and they will go back, nine 
times in ten, all right. Break hens to 
nest by using china eggs. Take 48 hours 
to break them in. If any hens prove dis¬ 
satisfied after two days, remove them and 
put in others. Don’t try to move a hen 
to a new nest until she gets the fever 
badly. She will then sit anywhere. 
even on the ground. The material for 
this incubator cost $5. It can be built 
in one day and it holds 225 eggs, 15 
under each hen. I build all my colony 
houses on this same plan with nests 
under the dropping boards. 
Fig. 109 illustrates the ideal brooding 
coop for a hen and 15 chicks. This coop 
beats a coop with vertical walls, because 
the chicks can crawl away back close 
between the roof and floor, where the 
hen can’t step on them. Five to 10 per 
cent, more chicks can be raised in coops 
of this kind than in the others. They 
ar a little harder to clean, but, on the 
whole, are the best. 
Fig. 110 shows my sectional colony 
and laying house in sections. It is 5x9 
feet. For first section floor take two 
2x3x9 as sills and nail on the matched 
SECTIONAL COLONY HOUSE. Fig. 110. 
flooring, which has been cut into 5-foot 
lengths. For the second section front, 
take two 2x2x9 for the front, lay them 
down on the floor, flush with ends of 
the floor boards. Take one 5-foot length, 
make the end flush with the 2x2 and 
nail. This will be the top plate after 
the wall is raised. Go to the other end 
of the floor and tack on the length at the 
other end, squaring before nailing. Now 
for bottom plate, which rests on floor; 
slip in the plate one inch from end of 
floor boards and nail to bottom plate, 
squaring. Continue to nail on the boards 
for the front wall, allowing each board 
to lap over the plate one inch, so that 
when set up it will not slip. The ex¬ 
tended boards form a kind of flange, as 
can be seen by studying the cut. The 
rear wall is similarly made, only four- 
foot lengths of boards are used, instead 
of five, as in front. It is best to saw 
the holes for the nests first, say, the 
four-foot boards on-the floor and match 
them up, keeping top ends even, then 
skip first board at east end, from that 
measure nine inches and mark out. Then 
skip space of four inches and mark out 
another, and so on until the number of 
doors you want for nests is marked out. 
Then number each board from left to 
right and unmatch and saw out the 
pieces, numbering the pieces in each 
door so as to keep them separate. After 
they are sawed out nail two cleats over 
the pieces to hold them together and 
hinge with wire screen hinge to the rear 
wall, each in its proper place and they 
will fit. w. H. TOMLINSON. 
( To be continued I 
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