. Biggle poultry book;. Poultry. 70 POULTRY BOOK. lumber, as it consists chiefly of roof. It will be an advantage, especially on low ground or clayey soil, to have the floor filled in six or eight inches deep with cinders or broken stone and covered with gravel or sand. The ventilator is for summer use alone and should be tightly closed in winter. The cut repre- sents a house twelve by sixteen feet, set on a wall two feet high, the point of the roof being eight feet above the floor. Figure 2 exhibits a good type of house for general use. As will appear from the illustration it has two
. Biggle poultry book;. Poultry. 70 POULTRY BOOK. lumber, as it consists chiefly of roof. It will be an advantage, especially on low ground or clayey soil, to have the floor filled in six or eight inches deep with cinders or broken stone and covered with gravel or sand. The ventilator is for summer use alone and should be tightly closed in winter. The cut repre- sents a house twelve by sixteen feet, set on a wall two feet high, the point of the roof being eight feet above the floor. Figure 2 exhibits a good type of house for general use. As will appear from the illustration it has two enclosed apartments with an open shed in the center. Both the apartments being raised thirty in- ches from the ground the whole floor space is available as a scratch- ing-room. The house is twelve by twenty- Fig. 2. four feet, the shed and end parts being eight by twelve feet each. One end is the roosting-room, and the other the laying and hatching-room. The fowls reach these rooms when the doors are shut l)y means of cleated ])oards extending from the ground to an opening in the floor. A passageway from one to the other eighteen inches wide and enclosed by wire netting is shown in the cut along KiG. 3. ^j^g j.^^^j. ^,^11 Qf i^i^g shed. Figure 3 shows the plan of this house. A serviceable and good all-around house is shown at Figure 4. A good width for a building of this character is eighteen feet, this allowing three feet for. 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 Biggle, Jacob. [from old catalog]. Philadelphia, Wilmer Atkinson co.
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