. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... Pieces Meas. Remarks Sills 2x6 12 2 24 Sills 2x6 8 2 16 Joists 2x6 8 4 32 Joists 2x4 8 15 Studs 2x4 10 5 33 1 piece cuts 2. Plates 2x4 12 3 24 Plates 2x4 8 4 21 Support for drop-pings 8 1 5 Window sills 2x4 8 1 5. Surfaced and milled. Perches 2x4 8 2 11 Surfaced, upper corners rounded. Rafters 2x4 10 7 47 1 piece cuts 2. Sheathing 640 Matched .... .. 175 3M squares prepared roofing. 100 s. f. sheathing paper for floor. 2 plain rail window sashes, H4-in., 6-light, 10xl2-in. s.
. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... Pieces Meas. Remarks Sills 2x6 12 2 24 Sills 2x6 8 2 16 Joists 2x6 8 4 32 Joists 2x4 8 15 Studs 2x4 10 5 33 1 piece cuts 2. Plates 2x4 12 3 24 Plates 2x4 8 4 21 Support for drop-pings 8 1 5 Window sills 2x4 8 1 5. Surfaced and milled. Perches 2x4 8 2 11 Surfaced, upper corners rounded. Rafters 2x4 10 7 47 1 piece cuts 2. Sheathing 640 Matched .... .. 175 3M squares prepared roofing. 100 s. f. sheathing paper for floor. 2 plain rail window sashes, H4-in., 6-light, 10xl2-in. s. f. of 1-inch inesh poultry netting. 101/2 s. f. of muslin. 8 4-inch locust or cedar posts, 5V2 ft. pair S-in. T-strap door latch. 3 pairs 2-inch butt hinges. 1 chain sash adjuster. 2 2-inch hooks and , paint, etc. With a little more expense, the house can be built withtongue-and-groove siding nailed horizontally. Trimmedneatly and given a couple of coats of paint, it may bemade very attractive in appearance and will last a -LENGTHWISE SECTION OF ELEVATED HOUSE 28 POULTRY HOUSES AND FIXTURES HOUSE FOR ADULT FOWLS OR BANTAMS A Practical House for Small Back-Yard Flocks. HasMuslin Ventilation, and Well-Protected Perches. ,Just Right for a Pen of Bantams. By E. L,. POTTER The drawings at the foot of this page illustrate aconvenient and practical house suitable for a small back-yard flock of eight to ten fowls. This house will proveespecially convenient for a bantam flock, though it maybe used for large fowls with entirely satisfactory curtains in front of the perches should be omitted,as they are of little use except in extremely cold sec-tions of the country or for fowls having extra-largecombs. If this house is used as a colony house, it willaccommodate twelve to fifteen Leghorns, about twelvefowls of larger breeds, or twenty bantams. It may bebuilt for a small sum, depending somewhat upon thelocality and the price of lumber. In
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