The national standard squab book . on cedar posts and istwo feet from the ground. The floor is built of two thick-nesses of board, with building paper between. The walls ofthe squab house are built of boards which are covered withbuilding paper and shingled. The roof is shingled. Youcan use clapboards on the sides, or common boards. The cost of such a squab house, complete with flying penand all inside fittings, built in the best possible manner, willbe from three dollars to five dollars a running foot. That isto say, a unit plant twelve feet long will cost from thirty-sixto sixty dollars. A p
The national standard squab book . on cedar posts and istwo feet from the ground. The floor is built of two thick-nesses of board, with building paper between. The walls ofthe squab house are built of boards which are covered withbuilding paper and shingled. The roof is shingled. Youcan use clapboards on the sides, or common boards. The cost of such a squab house, complete with flying penand all inside fittings, built in the best possible manner, willbe from three dollars to five dollars a running foot. That isto say, a unit plant twelve feet long will cost from thirty-sixto sixty dollars. A plant consisting of three units, thirty-sixfeet long, will cost from one hundred and eight to one hun-dred and fifty dollars. We publish and sell for ten cent?working drawings showing just how to build a unit inevery detail. On the same sheet are working drawingsfor building a simple squab house (without passageway) tocost from fifteen to twenty-five dollars. Also on the samesheet we give data showing how one of our friends built a. < 1-1 Ph tf tJ o o C5 ;m H rn C5 <a :2;Q a; rt c^ o a < T) H C 1-1 J3 t) w a rn S H UJ ?; 3 ^ £ M 3n H o W r/1 r^j ^ P C O ffi o 3 H ^ 1-1 o H^ H^H CM H wl P s 42 THE UNIT HOUSE 43 squab house and pen capable of accommodating two hundredand twenty pairs of breeders at a cost of one hundred andthirty dollars. In ordering, simply say you wish plans andspecifications for squab houses. Some begmners with plenty of means and anxious for thebest construction write us to ask if a cement floor is notbetter than a wood floor. A cement floor is positivelywrong, for this reason: when it is freshly laid, it is good,but the first winter causes the dirt foundation to shrink andswell, then come cracks in the cement. Rats and mice burrowin the dirt up to the cement and find their way through thecracks to the squabs. In a short time, they are a have seen a squab house built with cement floor whichcracked as described and every time the owner and
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