Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . feci square with a roof eight feet high infront and four feet at the back. No roomis taken up in hallways or passagewaysbut the doors entering the warm roomsopen from the scratching sheds. Very light material is used in the con- shingles. This makes a warm roof whichis very essential in a poultry house. Each of the closed pens has a windowthat reaches down to the sill. This win-dow is wide enough and high enough tolet in a great deal of sunshine
Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . feci square with a roof eight feet high infront and four feet at the back. No roomis taken up in hallways or passagewaysbut the doors entering the warm roomsopen from the scratching sheds. Very light material is used in the con- shingles. This makes a warm roof whichis very essential in a poultry house. Each of the closed pens has a windowthat reaches down to the sill. This win-dow is wide enough and high enough tolet in a great deal of sunshine, and this is BARN PLANS what the chickens need in winter. All in-side surfaces are dressed to prevent lodge-ment of dust and hiding places for whole bottom of the building is filledin several inches deep with grout the warm rooms the floor joists are em-. bedded in the soft mortar and a matchedfloor laid on. A floor like this is dry andeasily cleaned and it is impossible for ratsto work their way up through it. There isno wooden floor in the scratching grout filling is supposed to be coveredwith straw a foot or so in depth. The henswill work in this straw even in the coldest days, but of course it is a good plan to havea liberal supply of straw in the warm roomfor amusement night and morning. For nest boxes the arrangement givenin this plan is very satisfactory. It showsa roosting platform with a row of nestsunderneath. For leghorns or similar fowlstwelve inches square and seven or eightinches high is large enough for the nestboxes, but for brahmas or cochins two orthree inches larger each \vay are muchbetter. To facilitate cleaning the drop-ping board and nest boxes lift oflf from thelower platform. The lower platform ishinged and may be dropped down or un-hooked and the whole thing carried out-doors. It is very important to
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