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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 1913 
This department aims to acquaint 
its readers with real estate offer¬ 
ings, either in the shape of homes 
for sale or new developments in suburban communities. It offers the reader a 
splendid medium through which to buy, sell or exchange property. The real estate 
agent operating in the better class of residential property will find here an unusual 
opportunity of interesting a large buying clientele. 
tf iiaemont (E state 
Rt ^carsDalc Station 
Within 19 miles of Grand Central Station 
Rural surroundings and city conveniences 
Irregular, hill top sites for attractive homes 
Efficient planning and building service 
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J.Warren Thayer, PfeS. 
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New York 
503 Fifth 
New York City 
Select Country Places 
and SuperbWaterfronts 
At Greenwich, Conn. 
Tel. 866 Greenwich Smith Building 
A WONDERFUL RESIDENCE SITE, 20 TO 30 ACRES, 
in the high altitude (640 feet) pure air belt of Chappaqua; 
magnificent scenery and roads. Address Brevoort Hill, 
Ohappaqua, Westchester County, N. Y. 
RESIDENCE PLOTS, 3 TO 30 ACRES, SPLENDID 
roads; wonderful views; 500 to over 600 feet altitude; high 
class residences only. Address Perry Heights, Chappaqua, 
Westchester County, N. Y. 
MODERN STUCCO RESIDENCE, JUST FINISHED, 
with 3 to 70 acres; 600 feet altitude: magnificent water 
supply; wonderful natural scenery. Address Spring Cot¬ 
tage, Ohappaqua, Westchester County, N. Y. 
ONE OF THE FINEST HIGH ALTITUDE RESIDENCE 
Bites in Westchester County; 40 acres; beautifully land¬ 
scaped; no finer residence site. Address Treehoime, Chap¬ 
paqua, Westchester County, N. Y. 
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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
Union Square New York 
An Ideal Poultry House 
T HERE is no better time to build or 
remodel a poultry house than dur¬ 
ing the fall of the year. The ground on 
which a building is put up is dry and ready 
for the foundation. Labor, as a rule, if 
it must be employed, is cheaper and more 
easily obtained at this season than during 
the spring or summer. 
The essentials of a poultry building are, 
in order named, dryness, light and warmth. 
Dryness and light are essential to perfect 
health, while warmth has more or less to 
do with the egg producing qualities. One 
of the cheapest and most efficient build¬ 
ings I have ever tried, and one that has 
had the recommendation of about every 
fancier and breeder who ever saw it, is 
built on a four-inch foundation, two by 
fours spliced for the sills, studding set 
two feet apart, sheathed, papered and 
then shingled with second grade red ce¬ 
dars, four and a half to five inches to the 
weather. The sheathing I use is a grade 
of hemlock and fir that costs about twenty- 
three dollars a thousand. The paper is 
a single thickness of common tar building 
paper. Nail the shingles as low as pos¬ 
sible without exposing them. Use the 
same grade of shingles on the roof, allow¬ 
ing four inches to weather, with sheath¬ 
ing and paper under them the same as the 
sides. A five foot rear wall and a seven 
foot front wall make ample head room. 
If desired, the shingles may de dipped 
in an oil stain and thus made prettier 
and to wear better. Let the sheathing on 
the walls run right up to the roof sheet¬ 
ing and let the latter overhang the walls 
four inches. Cut off the rafters flush 
with the outside of the plate and sheathe 
right up to make a tight joint. This is 
better than any sort of a cornice on a 
poultry house. Cornices are not tight un¬ 
less a lot of labor is spent on them. From 
the edge of the roof sheathing that over¬ 
hangs, drop a two-inch strip to put a fin¬ 
ished appearance to the roof. Let the 
shingles hang over this about an inch all 
around, and at the apex of the roof, 
whether it be a shed or a style cover, have 
a capping made of lap siding. 
This style house has given me best re¬ 
sults for a one, two or four pen or con¬ 
tinuous housing for many breeding pens. 
Where there are to be partitions I make 
them of two feet of solid cheap boarding 
at the bottom, then above this I put cheap 
muslin. The muslin goes to the ceiling. 
The doors go into the highest part of each 
partition, near which are located the nest 
boxes and feeding troughs, grit boxes and 
water fountains. This saves a lot of room 
that is usually wasted in an alley-way and 
keeps one in close touch with all the birds 
housed therein. For years I used roosts, 
but now I keep the floor covered with lit¬ 
ter from a couple to ten inches deep and 
the birds roost on the floor. During win¬ 
ter they can keep warmer in this manner 
than if perched higher up where the cold 
air can get under them. It also saves a 
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