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HO USE & GARDEN 
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Poultry House for the Amateur 
(Continued from page 47) 
used with satisfaction. It looks like 
genuine stucco at a little distance and 
being shaped in squares can be easily 
applied by the amateur. Although 
composition material, it can be sawed 
like a board and nailed to the regu¬ 
lation frame work. With this ma¬ 
terial the cost runs perhaps 10% less 
than that of a house boarded and 
papered. 
The Question of a Floor 
What the floor shall consist of in 
this or any other type of poultry 
house is a moot question. Much de¬ 
pends upon conditions. If the earth 
is sand or loam and the drainage is 
good, it is of little advantage to put 
in an artificial floor. If there is 
much clay in the soil, on the other 
hand, or if the drainage is poor, it 
is altogether desirable to have the 
birds on a concrete or board floor. 
Perhaps the value of concrete has 
been over-estimated. It is sanitary, 
to be sure, if laid so that it is per¬ 
fectly smooth, but it is cold and hard 
unless kept covered with a deep lit¬ 
ter, and damp unless there is a deep 
layer of cinders, gravel or similar 
material under it to break the con¬ 
tact with the earth. If made too thin 
it will crack and settle. Yet in many 
situations a concrete floor is most de¬ 
sirable when well made. Ten cents a 
square foot is the usual basis on 
which the cost is figured. 
Many times it is worth while sup¬ 
porting the house on cement founda¬ 
tions, even when nothing more than 
an earth floor is used, because cement 
does not decay and also because it 
will exclude rats if sunk into the 
ground. For an ordinary house a 
foundation 4" wide, 6" above the 
ground and a foot or two below the 
surface will be entirely satisfactory. 
It is a simple matter to set up board 
forms and pour in a one-to-six mix¬ 
ture of concrete. When the work has 
been completed the earth should be 
graded around the foundation to 
carry off the surplus water. The 
basis for figuring cement foundations 
is from $5 to $7 a cubic yard. 
The interior of the poultry house 
should be as plain as possible. Drop¬ 
ping boards are considered by most 
amateurs as a necessity, but they 
are not, except in very small houses, 
and their presence greatly increases 
the amount of daily labor. They 
were introduced when it was the 
custom to save the waste and sell 
it to the tanneries, but that practice 
has passed. If a board is set up¬ 
right on the floor a foot in advance 
of the perch, the droppings can be 
confined to the space back of it and 
mixed with the litter which the fowls 
will scratch to the rear of the house. 
Then cleaning out will not be neces¬ 
sary oftener than once in two weeks 
and conditions will be fully as sani¬ 
tary as when dropping boards are 
used. 
The best roosting perches are 
made of 2" x 4" scantling and when 
no dropping platform is installed 
may well be set only 2' from the 
floor. In the old days perches were 
often found rising like ladders one 
above another, but experience 
showed that the birds had a free-for- 
all fight every night, as each of them 
coveted the topmost bar. Now all 
perches are made the same height 
and peace prevails at roosting time. 
It is true that hens prefer secluded 
nests, but they will lay just as well 
if the nests are merely open boxes 
hung from the walls. These nests 
will be too small if less than a foot 
square and they, like the perches and 
all other fittings, should be detach¬ 
able, in order that they may be taken 
out of the house occasionally and 
thoroughly cleaned. Vermin riot in 
nest boxes which are nailed fast and 
in the corners of which they can 
safely establish their colonies. 
Feed Hoppers 
The best feed hoppers are doubt¬ 
less those made of metal and hung 
from screws on the wall. Metal 
drinking fountains are also in com¬ 
mon use, but practical poultry keep¬ 
ers often substitute galvanized water 
pails, which they set on a low shelf, 
perhaps placing a board over part of 
the top to help exclude dust. These 
pails are easy to fill, easy to carry 
and easy to keep clean, while they 
will hold enough to last the average 
flock all day. 
Finally, there should be a dust box 
on the floor for use in winter, and 
the hens will appreciate the thought¬ 
fulness of the attendant if he places 
it so that direct sunlight will strike 
it for a few hours each day. A dust 
bath is one of the few luxuries which 
a busy hen is permitted to enjoy. 
Forestry at Home 
(Continued from page 17) 
tations. Nature herself in many 
cases tells us what grows best in 
each locality and what not. By 
this is not meant that, because hard¬ 
woods, like oak, hickory or chestnut, 
are more abundant on your land than 
other species, you should plant the 
same kind of trees. Far from it; a 
mixed forest, composed of hard¬ 
woods and softwoods, such as pines 
and spruces, is to be preferred. 
Therefore, if your woodland does 
not contain any of the pines or 
spruces, by all means include them in 
your plantations. 
If we go a step further and con¬ 
sider the demands made by the vari¬ 
ous trees upon the soil, we may class¬ 
ify them into three distinct groups: 
(1) Those which are not very par¬ 
ticular as to soil conditions, such as 
the birches, poplars, willows, locust, 
mountain ash, pitch pine, loblolly, red 
and Scotch pine; (2) Those which 
are pretending, as the basswood, wild 
cherry, basket willow, white pine, 
spruces and larch, and finally (3) 
Those which are most dependent 
upon soil conditions, as the oaks (ex¬ 
cept the rock and black oak), hick¬ 
ories, ash, beech, elm, chestnut, ma¬ 
ples, walnut, tulip-tree, sweet gum, 
plane tree, catalpa, and all of the 
firs. 
Whatever kind of trees you may 
select as most suitable in your case, 
be sure to plant enough and close 
together. The reason for this lies in 
the following consideration: If we 
study a primeval forest, where condi¬ 
tions are ideal, we find that the trees 
stand close together and their crowns 
form a solid canopy above the forest- 
floor ; in other words, the soil is 
thereby protected, its moisture main¬ 
tained and all undesirable and infe¬ 
rior trees and shrubs are kept down 
or out entirely. 
