. Built and used by poultrymen;. Poultry. House A, Showing Entrance — An English Portable House View of a common style of an English house built on wheels. 46. Arranging it for Winter. Four feet of the roosting com- partment is covered with roofing paper, and this makes a house and exercising pen all in one. It can be moved from place to place, so that the fowls can be kept on clean grass all summer. Before winter sets in, Mr. Roberts makes a frame of 2 x 6-in. plank (set edgeways) on the ground. The frame is the same size as the ground dimensions of the wire frames, and the house is then set
. Built and used by poultrymen;. Poultry. House A, Showing Entrance — An English Portable House View of a common style of an English house built on wheels. 46. Arranging it for Winter. Four feet of the roosting com- partment is covered with roofing paper, and this makes a house and exercising pen all in one. It can be moved from place to place, so that the fowls can be kept on clean grass all summer. Before winter sets in, Mr. Roberts makes a frame of 2 x 6-in. plank (set edgeways) on the ground. The frame is the same size as the ground dimensions of the wire frames, and the house is then set up on this plank foundation. A floor is built under the roost, and the north side boarded up. (The An English Portable house faces east and west.) On the SOUth „ . , , E, side, Mr. Roberts has a cloth curtain that Section of roof showing the . , . , ventilation at the ridge. drops down over the wire at night, or in [29]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chicago, Ill. , The Big four poultry journal
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