. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . of his own as to whatis necessary for the successful chicken house, and no two menseem to agree as to what type of structure will best assist orpersuade the hen to lay. A shortage of eggs has so frequentlybeen assigned by the master of the hens to faults in the archi-tects plan that this architect at least has made up
. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . of his own as to whatis necessary for the successful chicken house, and no two menseem to agree as to what type of structure will best assist orpersuade the hen to lay. A shortage of eggs has so frequentlybeen assigned by the master of the hens to faults in the archi-tects plan that this architect at least has made up his mind—as has everyone else interested in chickens—that no onereally knows anything about them but himself, and that aproper chicken house has never been built and never will be,until it can be carried out in its entirety by himself and him-self alone. What the hen needs more than anything else is fresh air, andto be assured of this it was thought that she needed almostunlimited range and plenty of room in her house. Crowdingin the pen was the worst possible condition. A writer in TheCountry Gentleman, some years back, said that in the coop10 sq. ft. of clear floor space per hen was desirable; this be-ing exclusive of all passageways and floor space occupied by 180. EXTERIOR OF BROODER HOUSE
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