Show W 4 FOR FOH TWO HUNDRED LiGH LEGHORNS ORNS structure shown in illustration proved entirely satisfactory during severe winter during tho the severe weather ot of last winter the house shown in tho the illustration trat fort gave us tie entire writes P F T tiffany in fix country gentleman in this house we had and 15 cockerels cockerell cocker els and had no trouble with colds as aa wasi was the caso case with an open front house this house bouse Is 30 20 feet long 14 feet wide 10 feet high in front and 6 5 feet high in the rear on the front side of tho the house facing south are two open lne 3 by 4 feet 4 inches each these openings arre covered on the outside with inch mesh wire to keep out the ilia sparrows these openings have bave frames on the inside covered with muslin which on told coll nights to la placed over ever the openings tho the addition in the front Is 13 12 feet long ions by 4 feet 8 inches inched wide and is Is Q 0 fret feet 6 inches high where it joins the building and 3 feet high nt at the lower side elde the roof of this comprises 4 hotbed hot bot bed sash bash 3 feet wide hy by 8 6 feet long this Is used as a dusting room mud tho the root roof furnishes light for the rest of tho the buil drag these sash bash are made no BO they will slide down in hot weather or when we wish to put in now new dust thore there art are also to in front two openings IR inches high to let the fowls out these openings have sliding doors on the inside on one ona end of the building we have a door 3 by 0 feet tor for entrance all weather to la white pine german siding except on the north side which Is boarded first with barn boards and then with siding over it the root roof la Is covered with shingles inside the house on the north side to Is the ro place the tha dropping board lei in 2 feet from the floor and to la ava 4 feet wide and runs runa the length of 0 the bUll building ding under tho the dropping board ore axe the nests 14 by 16 inches these 4 JEW practical poultry house houa n Ilo ota 0 dropping board N net nes tal 11 I 1 porch perch rest on an a platform composed of two fence boards about 4 inches apart and can be taken out separately to be cleaned in the rear ot of tho the nests nesta to 1 a board 4 inches wide for or the hens to light on to enter the nests nesta the nests are 15 inches from the floor in front of the nests nesta Is a muslin curtain which hangs within fl 9 inches of the floor this makes the nests nesta secluded the roost poles ore are about 6 inches above the dropping board and are one toot foot apart and run the length of the build arg this house can be built for less than 2 per fowl PROFIT IN MIXED POULTRY mot Most money Is made where ChIck chickenis enit ar are kept a as adjunct to other general farm crops there Is no doubt but that the great eo est t profit to Is made where poultry to ti kept as an adjunct to the other farm aim crops on the general farm the feed item and the labor item an aa well as aa the item of land aro are of smaller account than on larger poultry farms to tho tb farmer who to Is willing to give as much attention to the he poultry as aa he bo does to any other part of the farm operations there te le a good profit to b be a mado made with tery little expenditure of time and plymouth rock cocknel Cock cel ref money wherever it la in possible the tbt colony pouce jay system stem la Is 8 strongly becom mended for the general farm it has hai the tha advantage of bein being gable able to move inove poultry to auy any part of the tha farm and many times a corn or stubble field fox foi the tha fowl s to range over would mesa a great greab saying la in the reed feed bill rh drippings droppings drip pings we would uld also help to fertilize the land as aa they are richer than that of ODY any other domestic animal poul try kept in this way ani and receiving the proper attention should prove to be one of the best paying branches of tho the farm arm |