Show t 1 j COLONY HOUSE FOR POULTRY IS MUCH BEST i Far Ahead of Other Buildings for Shelter and Handling the Stock and ConvenienceBy J W Griffin f fi i The best thing I have seen lately In tho colony poultry houso lino In Illustrated Il-lustrated In tho accompanying pen sketch All will admit that have used thorn that the colony house for poultry poul-try or hogs Is far ahead of tho general run of largo houses as far as convenience conveni-ence of handling tho stock and the general conditions aro concerned To have tho best when it costs but a very little more should be our aim says J Wesley Griffin in Farmers Review From tho time the chicks aro put with tho mother lion until each Individual pullet is ready to start out In tho world upon the duty of mother hens this house may bo altered to suit each period of her existence without tho least expense over llrst cost The building Is 8x12 feet square 7 foot high In front and C feet high in the rear Inside measure This gives 00 square feet Moor spaco In the house We will start a hen with 20 chicks It Is much bettor to start a hen with 20 chicks give them cnrol attention and ralso them all than to start her with 28 or 30 expecting her to loso a part or enough to dwindle down to 20 Ninetysix feet of floor Bpaco Is plenty of room at first for a fresh air When laying time comes cracker and canned good boxes from tho grocers are sot around the wall for nests This house Is easy to build easy to keep clean and free from mites and easy to move from placo to place It being built upon runners The bill of material for tho houo Is as follows fol-lows Two pieces 2x6 inch sills 12 foot long Two pieces 2xClnch runners II feet long Seven pieces 26lnch joists 8 feet long Seven pieces 2x4lnch rafters 10 feet long Two pieces 2x1 1Inch plaits 14 foot long Siding 300 feet Common Mooring for shooting 140 feetGood Good flooring for floor 96 foot Two sash for glass 3x3 feet Four sash for cloth 3x3 Four pair small hinges for sash One pair hinges for door Twentylive pounds assorted nails One and onehalf squares roofing Tho cost of tho material at present prices will bo In the neighborhood of J Ti r i f f A Colony House hen and 20 chicks but later on they will utilize It all The coop sets before be-fore ono window tho dust box before the other At tho rear of the room is a perch pole ono foot from the floor By the time tho chicks are seven or eight weeks old they ore roosting on this Then the coop is taken away which gives more floor spaco As the weather becomes warmer the glass sash aro taken out during the day and cloth sash put In their place the glass being returned at night Later on tho glass may be left out entirely Tho cloth sash at the bottom are hung like those at the top which when raised and hold In position as shown In cut gives a shade for each window and allow free circulation in tho house of 30 The carpenters work will cost about 10 making a total cost for the houso about 40 It may bo cheaper In some cases especially If tho farmer can do his own building In buying material for several houses say ten or twelve tho cost of the Individual houso Is reduced about ten per cent In a field of twentylive or thirty acres that is In meadow or pasture with plenty of nice shado trees ten or twelve of these houses scattered over it look very pretty But sL 1 prettier are the littlo chicks when about grown each Hock at feeding time plclc ing amound its home And yet prettier pret-tier tho swell in the bank account at selling time I |