Show llunix fur flick It will pay every farmer to make permanent houses for rearing young I chlckona rather than to depend Oil temporary coops write Waldo 1 Jlrown In Country Gentleman I have rarely known more than half thus chickens hatched to live to grow to maturity under time common management I 1 manage-ment which confines the puns In coops out with the chickens allowed l to run out I and It is I troublesome and laborious to care for them The causes of low are I many Sepsis In many eaten kill half I I of them then ruts ikunka hawlti lt edra lnh I I and other depredator come In for a share The hens kill some which get i t I Into the wrong coops Sudden violent mint Hood time coop and drown them 1 i and often before they ore largeenough I I for market 00 per cent of them are I I 1 gone Ily raising the chicks In a prop rly constructed house nearly all of these losses can bo avoided 1 Chickens will not have gape unless they gel the germ oDd no depredalon can po Ibly get them If the house is I made aa IL should bet and with proper attention aa to ctcanllnesa lice can be kept down and If proper food Lt given at regular hours you can have he satisfaction of seeing a brood 01 smooth healthy chickens which urovr rapidly and nearly nil ol which lire I do not let the chickens out of heir house nnd yard untlllhey aro two nontha old I have made the mUtakg several times of letting them out too soon and have met with loss on account ac-count of It Thla spring I put ninety three chicks with four mothers In a room eight by twelve feet over my hog house ni my regular chicken housed were full I kept them there until a month old without losing one and I never law a moro thrifty lot of chicks When the hot Tune weather came on and the racr curl was nt IK degree to M degrcca very day my wife thought they mutt utter from bent and although there svas not a drooping chicken among hem 1 moved them June 20 to roomy oops with gravel floor to one part l and want lour to thin teal The result nil droopy chickens and quite n per ent of loss My plan It I to raise the chicks with natural mother whether lalchcd by hens or an Inctl baton We make tho house to rnlto hem In lire feet wide with the low part of the roof to the south Wo put a board slur made tight and of planed umber eighteen Inches ubovo tho ground and tho root at tho lowest part lure feet above tho lour This late insure ilryniw and we raise It eighteen nchet so that there will bo no placo for mink skunks or other enemies to harbor under It At the south aide l wo haloa sash with MX light which 00 elllICII about half the front but mada so II can be an uug up I and fastened un sirs the roof out of the nay In hot weather and the chick kept In by vlro nclltng nailed back of time sash bmctlmc thcso house aro mada seven feet wide with a twofoot passage at he north aide 1 to paw along and com nuntcnlo with each room and tho ceding It I dune from tho pottage At the south olio wo Inclose with nth nailed ao close that the youngest chick can not get through a yard live feet square whlcli wo cover with clean gravel 80 deep as to prevent he chick from gelling don n to tha ground and all pleasant days they are let out hero to scratch and dust Wa lava a door that allies up and dmvn In loose groove ao at that wo can opan and shut It from the largo door from at thin north These north door are made largo enough ao a man can costly plan In and outand in cleaning out the room wa act a light square box under the door and awccp the dropping directly 1 di-rectly Into It A ladder mada of award a-ward a foot wide with cleat nailed ont I on-t enable this hen and chick easily 10 past up and down from the graveled run to limo feed room Theta room should bo welL clean every day or t1rO and sprinkled with aawdust and the feeding should bo done In light not boxes movable ao na to be entity taken out when the floor Is to bo awcpt |