Mrs Basley's poultry book; tells you what to do and how to do it; the chicken business from first to last including 1001 questions and answers, relative to up-to-date poultry culture . man. He made a light frame five feetsquare and five feet high. This he covered with canvas and theroof he made of rubberoid roofing. He left a space below of ten ortwelve inches. These mushroom houses were tipped over everyday to be sunned or cleaned. I improved upon his plan by makinga door of one whole side, for I wanted to be able to handle my fowlsat night without tipping the house over. Perches should be pl
Mrs Basley's poultry book; tells you what to do and how to do it; the chicken business from first to last including 1001 questions and answers, relative to up-to-date poultry culture . man. He made a light frame five feetsquare and five feet high. This he covered with canvas and theroof he made of rubberoid roofing. He left a space below of ten ortwelve inches. These mushroom houses were tipped over everyday to be sunned or cleaned. I improved upon his plan by makinga door of one whole side, for I wanted to be able to handle my fowlsat night without tipping the house over. Perches should be placedabout twelve inches above the open space, and in the case of heavybreeds a small ladder or run board should be placed for them toreach the perches easily when going to roost. The advantages ofsuch a house are its lightness, and the free circulation of air withoutdraughts on the fowls. These houses can be covered with matchedlumber, shakes, canvas, burlap, rubberoid, or even common domesticmuslin, which may be oiled or painted with crude petroleum. The open front house is admirably adapted to California is now meeting with favor even in the rigorous climate of the. Hulbrooks Canvas Covered 3lii»hrooin House. East, where poultry raisers begin to realize the value of fresh airwithout draughts, if they want to have vigorous hens that will layeggs in the winter time. I have been using the open front housesof various sizes for over twelve years and can assert that they arethe only kind I ever want to use. Another style open front housethat I have seen and like very much is fifteen feet by eleven feet sixinches, and is seven feet high at the back and four feet at the openfront. It is constructed of rubberoid or malthoid and is almostvermin proof. It is divided in the middle by chicken wire, so form-ing either one house or two as required. The roof is first coveredwith two-inch chicken wire to support the rubberoid. At the bottomof the walls next to the ground it is boa
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