. Barn plans and outbuildings . Fig. 185—GROUND PLAN Fig. 186—CONCRETE HOUSE plan an open shed at the end of the house, then tworoosting rooms, followed by two scratching sheds andanother roosting room. There are various methods employed to enclose the frontof the shed during stormy and very severe cold use screens, which are hinged at the top and letdown. These are covered with oiled muslin, which allows SCRATCHING SHED HOUSE 189 some light to enter. Others employ swing doors to en-close half the shed and side up the other half, putting ina large window. Figures 1S3 and 1S4 show
. Barn plans and outbuildings . Fig. 185—GROUND PLAN Fig. 186—CONCRETE HOUSE plan an open shed at the end of the house, then tworoosting rooms, followed by two scratching sheds andanother roosting room. There are various methods employed to enclose the frontof the shed during stormy and very severe cold use screens, which are hinged at the top and letdown. These are covered with oiled muslin, which allows SCRATCHING SHED HOUSE 189 some light to enter. Others employ swing doors to en-close half the shed and side up the other half, putting ina large window. Figures 1S3 and 1S4 show the two Figures 185 and 1S7 are shown the style of housesbuilt by the Massachusetts Agricultural College atAmherst. These houses are twelve by eighteen feet, hav-ing a roosting room occupying ten feet of the space andscratching sheds the balance. Two doors with large win-dows are used to close the open shed when needed. The. Fig. 187—^A MASSACHUSETTS SCRATCHIXG SHED HOUSE house is thoroughly well built, being sided with inchboards and covered with building paper and then a house will easily accommodate twenty-five tothirty fowls. CONCRETE POULTRY HOUSES E. W. Geer of St. Francois County, Mo., has solved theproblem of eggs in winter, and sound, unfrosted combsin the spring. He has accomplished ths by means of lyU BARN PLu\NS AND OUTBUILDINGS concrete poultry houses that are free from dampness inthe most rainy seasons, and as warm inside in the coldestdays as a cellar. See Figure 186. Where building mate-rials, such as stones, sand, cement and lime, can be easilyand cheaply had, such a building can be erected at a costnot greatly exceeding a wooden house. Make the neces-sary excavation and lay the foundation. Set studding foruprights four inches wider than the width of the wall;plumb the studding and fasten securely with stay-laths. On the inside of each stud place a one by two-inchstrip, an
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