HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 
1914 
The lines on your face 
are the result of nerves that are out of gear. 
When you were sixteen you had 
but you were’nt 
conscious of them 
If you realize them now it’s 
because the combination of 
household responsibilities and 
social obligations has put them 
out of tune and they need to 
be brought back into harmony. 
If an afternoon of shopping 
or at the dressmaker’s plays 
you out, if your appetite is 
growing more and more fickle, 
if a session of “Auction” 
makes you irritable, if, no 
matter what your age, you 
don’t feel young, — its high 
time you looked after your¬ 
self. All this is unnatural, abnormal, 
out of sorts. 
You were created to be well, 
You were born to be vigorous and happy 
so stop now and get back to natural conditions, get yourself Well. It is’nt a 
difficult matter if you go about it right. The best way is described in a new 
booklet, just published, called, 
“The Way to Get Well” 
Send for your copy today, it’s waiting for you, I want you to be well. 
Address: GEO. F. ADAMS, Mgr. Box 1306 FORTRESS MONROE, VA. 
Nature never intended you to be 
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The Real Martyr of St. Helena 
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The Crime 
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By EUGENE LABAUME 
Translated by T. Dundas Pillans 
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Construction of a Practical Poultry 
House 
I N housing fowls in winter care should 
be taken to have your buildings com¬ 
fortably warm and well ventilated, in such 
a manner as to prevent all direct drafts 
of air coming in contact with the fowls and 
at the same time do away with the mois¬ 
ture and frost collecting upon the walls and 
ceiling of the house. It is much better to 
have a cold, well ventilated house than to 
have one very warm and poorly ventilated, 
and your fowls will be much healthier and 
lay better in the former than in the latter. 
In building a house one should take into 
consideration the climatic conditions of the 
locality in which the house is intended to 
be built. A well drained soil should be 
selected and avoid building in a hollow 
where water will collect if you do not want 
trouble. Many are partial to the open- 
front-scratching style of building a poul¬ 
try house, and while they are all right for 
certain locations, in this locality I have 
found the house described and illustrated 
to be more preferable. This house was 
planned and built by myself and has 
proven very satisfactory. 
The house is built facing the south and 
is 15 feet wide, 50 feet long, 4F2 feet high 
in back, 6 feet high in front and 7 feet 
high at the highest point. These dimen¬ 
sions and style of roof make a low house, 
which is a great deal warmer than one 
higher, yet it is plenty high enough to work 
in. Here is a point where many make a 
mistake in building poultry houses. They 
build them altogether high, when a low one 
will cost less and be so much warmer. 
When you build a poultry house don't 
make this mistake, but build them low, and 
then you have not got to heat all out doors. 
The frames and plates of my building are 
made of 2x4s and the sills and corner 
posts of 4x4s. The outside is boarded as 
tightly as possible with hemlock boards 
and a cheap grade of house siding is used 
for siding, with a good grade of tar paper 
between the boards and the siding. For 
roofing I used a three-ply Rubberoid 
paper, being put on in strips from front to 
back of the house. Five double sash win¬ 
dows occupy about one-fourth of the front 
and extend nearly the whole length of the 
front of the building, allowing the sun’s 
rays to shine directly on the floor of the 
house. Sun is an excellent tonic for the 
fowls and should always be taken into 
consideration when constructing a poultry 
house. Four holes 2 feet square are cut 
near the top and between the windows. 
These are framed and a sash covered with 
muslin hinged to the frame. By opening 
the windows during the day these muslin 
frames form a very desirable method of 
ventilation, and practically do away with 
all moisture and frost collecting on the 
walls and ceiling of the building, and sup¬ 
ply an abundance of pure air free from 
drafts. 
The house is divided into five pens each 
10x15 feet. The partitions are boarded up 
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