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Show POULTRY HOUSE FOR WINTER Heavy Curtain Should Be Drawn Over Open Side of Building on Very Cold Nights. The roosting closets or pens should be along one end of the building, and should be inclosed on all sides except the front, over which a heavy curtain can be hung, to be let down on cold nights! If you have a number of pens, divide them with matched boards or building taper, so that there will not be so many direct drafts blowing through the house. A very convenient way to build a poultry house is to have two pens beside be-side each other about nine feet wide and 12 feet long, and on either side of these have a scratching shed which opens to the south. You can build two such apartments and keep perhaps 150 fowls when they are confined In winter. Build the poultry house close to the ground and not more than five and one-half feet In the rear, and perhaps per-haps seven or eight facing the south and front, just enough to get a decent slope to the roof. A good prepared roofing will last for years, and it Is much cheaper than shingles. Have plenty of windows in the room which you might call the lrying room, in which the roosting closet is at one end. One of the windows win-dows can be covered with burlap soaped soap-ed in linseed oil or any kind of canvas can-vas which will admit the fresh air and keep the poultry house dry and prevent pre-vent direct drafts. ' x By placing two scratching pens together to-gether and two laying pens and one scratching pen on each end you would have four nice pens with a scratching shed attached to each. Your building build-ing may be somewhat longer than you desire, but you will find It will pay you in the end. |