September, 1913 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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the front one, chain-suspended like the 
droppings board, from the ceiling. 
The perches are one foot apart and one 
foot each from the wall and partition, to 
o-ive the hens plenty of room on the roosts. 
& The floor beneath the droppings board 
is always, like the scratch shed outside, 
covered several inches deep with clean 
straw or leaves. This makes a very cozy 
place for the fowls to sun themselves of 
cold winter days when the curtains are 
down, over the netting. 
The scratching shed is six by eight, floor 
space, and is mostly open in front, having 
a wire netting door twenty-four inches 
wide and a space the same size covered 
with wire netting alongside. In bad 
weather there is a white muslin curtain 
to drop down and button snugly over the 
netting to keep out storm and let in light 
and air. 
The nests are arranged along the west 
end and rest on the floor, but a better 
plan would be to have them raised eighteen 
inches to allow the hens the use of the 
extra floor space. They have sloping 
covers to prevent hens from roosting 
thereon. 
The food hoppers are the slatted, cov¬ 
ered variety, and are arranged on an ele¬ 
vated platform that the fowls may get 
under to gather up all shattered grain. 
The water vessel is on a like platform. 
Charcoal, bone, oyster-shell and meat scrap 
are in little compartments arranged along 
the back wall. 
Fifteen hens were kept in this house, 
summer and winter, for two seasons, and 
they furnished eggs for a family. When 
it was decided to add five more hens to 
the regular flock and rear fifty chicks each 
season, a portable pen was added to give 
extra room and allow of some foraging. 
This pen was made six by sixteen feet in 
size and twenty-four inches tall, of wire 
netting and covered over the top with a 
six foot wide strip of netting. 
There was an opening in one end, and 
one in one side of pen for ingress or 
egress of the hens, one to correspond in 
each end and in the front of house. 
By closing all but a pair of openings, 
the fowls could, by proper arrangement 
of the pen, range over quite a large area 
of ground without having a chance to 
molest a thing. There was always green 
grass for them in season by this method. 
The chicken house is set in the midst of 
the plum and cherry trees, and the range 
of the small portable yard comes upon the 
grass beneath them. 
There are about six hens set along in 
late February and the month of March, 
the aim being to have about three broods 
of chicks to furnish early pullets for the 
next winter's layers and to have what 
young cockerels the family cares for for 
eating. The chicks are placed in coops 
with the hens under the currant and rasp¬ 
berry bushes, being allowed their liberty 
to roam over lawn and garden till five 
weeks old, when they are taken from the 
hen. 
The cockerels are separated at this time 
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