. Poultry-craft. A text-book for poultry keepers ... Poultry. 33 POULTRT-CRAFT. Sheathing, (rough) 55°° sq. ft. Sheathing, (surfaced for droppings boards) 200 sq. ft. Matched iiooring for floors, doors, grain bins 750 Kq. ft. Building paper, to cover 4500 sq. ft. 2 rolls wire netting 5 ft. wide, 2-inch mesh. 22 6-light sash, 10 x 14 glass; 2 4-panel doors; 2 pr. loose pin butt hinges; 2 pr. 6-in. T hinges; 16 pr. 4-in. T hinges; 2 locks; nails, screws, hooks, staples, etc. Note.— If the building is covered with shingles the pitch of the roofs must be greater than in the figure. The roofs shoul
. Poultry-craft. A text-book for poultry keepers ... Poultry. 33 POULTRT-CRAFT. Sheathing, (rough) 55°° sq. ft. Sheathing, (surfaced for droppings boards) 200 sq. ft. Matched iiooring for floors, doors, grain bins 750 Kq. ft. Building paper, to cover 4500 sq. ft. 2 rolls wire netting 5 ft. wide, 2-inch mesh. 22 6-light sash, 10 x 14 glass; 2 4-panel doors; 2 pr. loose pin butt hinges; 2 pr. 6-in. T hinges; 16 pr. 4-in. T hinges; 2 locks; nails, screws, hooks, staples, etc. Note.— If the building is covered with shingles the pitch of the roofs must be greater than in the figure. The roofs should be i ft. higher at the peaks — 35 thousand shingles are required to cover the building, laying them on the roof 5 in., and on the sides 0 in. to the weather. 37. Plan for Doing all Work from the Walk. — Fig. 13 shows how the pens in a house of the style described in ^[36 may be arranged to permit all work,—feeding, watering, cleaning droppings boards, and collecting. Pigr. 13. Showing the Arrangement for Doing the Work in a Long House from the Walk. P, pas-sagc; R, roost platform: a, door to roost; c, door to nests. eggs — to be done from the walk. The arrangement cannot be considered the best for a practical poultry man seeking a plan by which the items, cost, capacity, and convenience, are balanced with a view to the greatest profit. The plan is also open to criticism on the ground that nearly all work being done without going into the pens, the fowls do not become accustomed to the pi'esence of the attendant. Then when it is necessary to go into the pens, the fowls make a disturbance detri- mental to egg production. There are, however, cases where it is an advan- tage to the one caring for the fowls to be able to give them all atten- tion without going into the pens. The arrangement will recommend itself to those who want a house in which they can do the daily chores without being obliged to change from their ordinary dress to a poultryman's working
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