. The American farm and stock manual. Agriculture; Home economics. 194 THE FARM, and sliding window. The benefit birds of all description derive from change of place, not only arises from the pleasure every animal as well as man de- rives from changes of scene, biit by being preserved from the exhalations emitted by excrementitious matter and decaying food. Model Poultry House.—We give a plan of poultry house and yards, combining many good points and conveniences. The building is enclosed with worked spruce or pine boards, put on ver- tically, and the height so arranged that each bca-d will cu
. The American farm and stock manual. Agriculture; Home economics. 194 THE FARM, and sliding window. The benefit birds of all description derive from change of place, not only arises from the pleasure every animal as well as man de- rives from changes of scene, biit by being preserved from the exhalations emitted by excrementitious matter and decaying food. Model Poultry House.—We give a plan of poultry house and yards, combining many good points and conveniences. The building is enclosed with worked spruce or pine boards, put on ver- tically, and the height so arranged that each bca-d will cut to avoid waste. All the pieces are cut off of the full lengths in front, making just half a rear length. The rafters of thirteen feet joist, with either battened or shingle roof as preferred. The building is supposed to face the south. The entrance door, E, opening into the passage, P, three and a half feet wide, which runs the length of the build- ing; smaller doors, D, each two feet wide, opening into the roosting room, R. The nests are raised about a foot from the floor, and also open into the room R, with a hinged board in the passage, so that the eggs can be removed with- out entering the roosting rooms. The perches, A, are movable, perfectly level, and raised two feet. ELEVATION.—LENGTH, 24 FEET; WIDTH, 11 FEET HEIGHT, IN FKONT, 9 1-2 FEET; HEIGHT, IN BEAR, 6 1-2 FEET. MM I I I \'9y\ \ w I I r-jpx-i I m ri^ -%»....? ...s J» from the floor. The parti- tion walls are tight, two boards high, above which is lath; the passage wall above the nest, and also the doors, D, being of lath also. The roosting-rooms are seven and a half by eight feet, large enough for twenty-five fowls each. Win- dows are six feet square, raised one foot from the floor. We prefer the glass to be six by eight or seven by nine inches—as these small sizes need no protec- tion strips to prevent the fowls from breaking them. The holes, H, for egress and ingress of the fowls, are closed by a drop d
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