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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 11, 
HANDY POULTRY HOUSE. 
PAItT II. 
Fig. 123 shows the wall for east end. 
The bottom plate is at right angles with 
the boards. The top plate slopes one 
inch in five, or one foot in five feet, 
since the roof slopes one foot from front 
to rear. Three boards (in case 1 x 5J4- 
inch boards are used) may be kept out 
for a door in the east end. West end 
is made in similar way, reversed with¬ 
out door. When the five sections have 
all been made, level up the floor, set the 
front section on, house to face the south, 
letting the bottom plate rest on the floor, 
and the extended boards (forming the 
flange) extend down at end of floor 
boards, as shown in Fig. 123. Plumb 
and brace the wall. Now set on the 
rear wall, plumb and brace. Then set 
in the end sections, which should just 
fit, and nail lightly to front and rear 
walls, so as to hold firmly. Now, the 
walls are all up, put on the roof. Take 
a lx3x9-foot and nail (don’t drive nails 
clear up) it on rear wall, flush with top 
of wall boards and plate; then same in 
front and across ends. Use No. 10 nails, 
1x3 all around top of walls flush with 
the top. Now take the matched 1x5^4 
and cut into lengths (use boards clear of 
knots and cracks), 5 feet by 6 ^ inches 
long. Begin at east end, let edge of 
board extend over one inch and nail 
securely to the 1x3 inch front and rear 
at east end, then nail the others, after 
driving up close, to the 1x3 inch front 
and rear, using No. 6 nails just like 
laying a floor. After all have been nailed 
on, the nails holding the 1x3 can be 
drawn and the whole roof can be lifted 
off like the lid of a bandbox. 
Now go inside and make the section 
for the nest boxes. Take two 1 x 
(same as used for rest of house) and 
cut long enough to extend across the 
number of doors you have cut out in 
the rear wall. Lay them down length¬ 
wise and separate 6 inches, nail 1x3 
cleats 17 inches long across them at dis¬ 
tances apart equal to width of nests. 
Now cut some (as many as needed) 
THE HOUSE COMPLETED. Fig. 124. 
1 x 5 l /2 into lengths 20 inches (being 
depth of nest boxes) and nail the ends 
on to the cleats. These make partitions 
between the nests.. None need to be used 
at ends, as the east and west walls of 
the house serve the purpose at ends, 
inis section should slip right into posi¬ 
tion and fit the doors cut out in rear 
wall. Now for the droppings board. 
This sets down on top of the nest 
boxes. I advise that only four nest 
boxes be made in this house. Thus 
built, it leaves the west end of the house 
for a scratch pen about 4x5 feet, large 
enough for 15 hens. If built so, put a 
partition half way across the house, 
forming west wall to the nest boxes and 
the droppings board and roosting place. 
Section for the nest boxes and the drop¬ 
pings board must fit in between this 
partition and the east end of house or 
wall. Cut 1 x 5 l /2 into 28-inch lengths 
and nail on to two lx 2 ’s of a length to 
cover the four nest boxes, driving up 
close, same as laying floor. This little 
floor fits right down on top of nest boxes 
and covers them. At first I let droppings 
board slope, but now I make it level, as 
it is just as good and easier to make it 
so. Put on two perches, 2 x 2 , about 
nine inches apart, nail some wire mesh 
over the front window. Make and hinge 
the door and your house is complete. 
W. H. TOMLINSON. 
EARLY HATCHED LEGHORN PULLETS. 
A Year’s Work. 
Some time since Mr. Cosgrove in 
answering, through The R. N.-Y., some 
questions in regard to early pullets, gave 
the impression that the Leghorns, if 
hatched early, were quite sure to lay a 
few small eggs in early Fall, then molt, 
and lay no more eggs until toward 
Spring. Such a statement, coming from 
a poultryman of large experience, is 
rather discouraging for the novice who 
contemplates raising a flock of early 
Leghorns to help in keeping the domes¬ 
tic wheels oiled during Fall and Winter, 
when eggs are high. For the comfort of 
such I submit the following report of my 
flock of 87 White Leghorn pullets, 
hatched April 14, 1909. I wish I could 
say that their excellent work was owing 
to my careful system of trap-nesting 
and breeding; to some doubled-and- 
twisted secrets in selection or handling 
in “units,” or to the feeding of some 
wonderful newly discovered feed costing 
only 10 cents a bushel, any one of which 
millionaire-making secrets might be had 
for 75 cents. But no; these pullets were 
just plain, unselected pullets of the 
Wyckoff strain, fed on lines indicated by 
the New York Experiment Station. 
They never saw sprouted oats or green 
bone. The report covers period from 
October 1 , 1909, to October 1 , 1910. 
Month 
Eggs laid 
Daily aver 
October .... 
883 
28+ 
November .. 
, . . . 987 
33— 
December . . 
973 
31 + 
January .. . 
... 1,103 
February .. 
... 1,347 
48+ 
March . 
... 1.897 
61+ 
April . 
... 1.984 
66+ 
May . 
... 1,880 
60+ 
.Tune . 
. . . 1.584 
53— 
July. 
48+ 
August . 
... 1,435 
46+ 
September .. 
. . . 1,094 
36+ 
1(5,672 
The pullets were fed grain only from 
eight weeks old until time of placing in 
Winter quarters. They were divided 
into four flocks as nearly equal as pos¬ 
sible, and placed in warm pens with cur¬ 
tain fronts about October 1 . From that 
time until June 1 they were confined. 
Then they had free range or nearly so. 
They were not troubled with lice or 
disease, the only trouble being eversion 
of the oviduct, of which there were five 
or six cases. Any other losses were ac¬ 
cidental. I ended the year with 80 hens, 
which, considering the time losses oc¬ 
curred, gives an average of 83 hens for 
the year. This gives an average of 
nearly 201 eggs per hen in the year. 
This year 1 have about 100 April pul¬ 
lets doing as well. Still I do not ex¬ 
pect to duplicate this record. I would 
not care to submit this except in defense 
of the early Leghorns. I believe it is 
not an uncommon record. The men 
who really produce good records are too 
busy to blow their horns. A study of 
this record is of interest as showing the 
influence of good Fall and Winter pro¬ 
duction on subsequent Spring and Sum¬ 
mer laying. The behavior of these hens 
after October 1 , 1910, may not be unin¬ 
teresting also. During September and 
October they were losing feathers 
rapidly. During October the egg pro¬ 
duction tapered to zero. They were then 
a disreputable looking lot of hags. De¬ 
cember 29 the first egg of a new term 
was laid. They now are all in clean 
dress and laying about 24 per day (Feb¬ 
ruary 14). They are now in colony 
pens on free range as weather permits, 
getting ready to supply me with another 
flock of early Leghorn pullets. My early- 
hatched pullets do show considerable 
moulting in Winter, but not to stop 
profitable egg production. 
Crawford Co., Pa. don e. smith. 
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