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Show MAKING ROOST LOUSE-PROOF New Jersey Man Gives Excellent Plan for Keeping Vermin From Chickens Chick-ens While Sleeping. A fine roosting platform I have V made as follows: Take 3-foot boards ? end fasten them together with 6-inch battens, a, then nail a 6-inch strip. d, on each end to receive poles, c, writes Warren Johnson of Cumberland county, coun-ty, N. J., in the Farm and Home. To support it take iron plate, d, and bolt to platform a little back of center. cen-ter. Have an upright iron standard, C to bolt on to floor or cross sills, "I 1 el I ZT , o o e - c - ' 0 o - o c - 1 I 1 I l I xl A Details for Roosting Platform. with U-shaped notch in end to receive re-ceive end of plate, d. Suspend front from raftere by chains, f. This can he tilted back out of the way in daytime day-time and 1 nearly louse-proof. |