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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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A SOUTHERN HENHOUSE. 
I want to keep 200 to 300 hens for eggs 
only, and In reading the description of poul¬ 
try houses in the Northern and Eastern 
States I am somewhat discouraged on ac¬ 
count of expense. You are aware that we 
do not need to keep hens housed in all 
Winter in this section, as seems to be the 
case in colder climates. I have planned a 
house that seems to me would answer my 
purpose, but before building I would like 
the advice of some one with more experi¬ 
ence. My plan is to build, say 16 x 32 feet, 
two stories high. The ground floor to be 
dirt, and used for feed room, scratching 
shed. etc. The second floor to be built tight 
with matched flooring. The roosts to be 
two or three feet above this floor with stair¬ 
way to the ground floor. The upper floor 
to be used exclusively for roosts, and being 
made tight with dressed and matched 
boards could be easily cleaned and swept say 
to a center shoot with barrel underneath to 
catch the manure. A little room could eas¬ 
ily be added on the side near the front end 
for storing feed, mixing, etc. How would 
this plan do? How many hens could I keep 
in a house this size and not crowd them? 
Remember they are not to be kept up 
during the day except in extremely bad 
weather. If this house is not suited for 
be closed in, except holes for ventilation, 
so that the hens could not knock it over, 
or scratch litter into it, and it must be 
large enough to hold a week’s supply of 
Oil. GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
CANADA PEAS AND COW PEAS. 
For the latitude of Columbus, Ohio, is 
there any choice between the Canada field 
pea and the cow pea for a forage crop, or 
for growth for green fertilizer? How does 
buckwheat compare with either? Is there 
any green crop which can be grown in 
corn to as good advantage as tlie field pea 
or the cow pea ? f. r.. R. 
The Canada pea can be seeded with 
oats before frosts are over. It is a 
cool weather plant and one of the best 
for early seeding. Seeded with oats the 
vines are held up by the oat stems and 
the combination makes a good green 
forage or hay. Seeded after May the 
Canada pea makes but a feeble growth. 
The cow pea, on the other hand, is 
really a tender bean. Sow it with oats, 
and like garden beans, it will be killed by 
frost even if it is able to sprout. It is 
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PLAN FOR LONG HENHOUSE. 
my purpose how should I build for the num¬ 
ber of hens mentioned? You know most of 
the poultry in this section roost in trees, 
on fences and any old outhouse, but we 
don't get many eggs in the Winter. 
Calhoun, Ga. d. w. 
From what I have seen, and from 
my own experience, I would not build 
a two-story henhouse, nor is there 
necessity of building an expensive house 
for comfort even in the North. If D. 
W. will build a house about 75 feet 
long, 12 feet deep, he can keep 300 or 
more hens where they run out most of 
the time. In his climate he would 
want the north side good, and a good 
roof; the front could be nearly en¬ 
tirely open with curtains to keep out 
storms, and the house should be divided 
with muslin partitions to prevent drafts 
in the long house. The rear should 
be about four feet and the front seven 
feet. A platform 2^ feet wide running 
all the length of the house would hold 
the perches, and we keep the nests 
underneath this platform. We drive 
around once a week and clean off 
droppings. The only difference between 
this and what I would build for my 
own use here in New York would be that 
a hot weather plant, and makes its best 
growth after May. Planted five to 10 
days after corn on suitable ground it 
will make a quick and rank growth. The 
long-vined varieties will give more for¬ 
age than Canada peas, though owing to 
the tangle they make the crop is hard to 
cut and cure. The oats and Canada peas 
can be seeded in April and cut for hay in 
late June. The stubble can be plowed 
or disked and seeded to cow peas. These 
may be cut in September and the ground 
seeded to rye. Under such treatment 
both Canada peas and cow peas would 
have good conditions for growth, but if 
you reverse the practice both would be 
failures. This shows how the two can¬ 
not well be compared. Buckwheat makes , 
a quick growth in late Summer. Both | 
peas will add nitrogen to the soil from 1 
the air, but the buckwheat simply takes 
plant food from the soil, and is not a 
good forage crop. We use Crimson 
clover and Cow-horn turnips in the corn. 
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