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Show liStgglfgll GOOD HOUSES FOR CHICKENS Leghorns Stand Cold Weather, Provided Pro-vided They Are Free From Dampness Damp-ness and Draughts. : "We have one building 18x70 feet and one 18x128 feet made of matched pine, not doubled or lined, a pitch roof covered with two-ply roofing and dirt floors. Both buildings face the south and each has the south side covered with an equal amount of glasj and muslin half-way from the eaves, the latter half enclosed with matched ( J .v ..&(. ' J Single-Comb Brown Leghorn. pine. These windows have been opened wide daily regardless of zero -weather. Single Comb Brown Leghorns Leg-horns stand cold weather, provided they are free from drafts and dampness, damp-ness, says a writer in an exchange. Our buildings have dirt floors covered cov-ered with one foot of wheat straw. The dropping boards and roosts are cleaned and disinfected with a hot pray from a force pump every two weeks. The broken straw from the floor is placed upon the dropping boards and the floor covered anew with wheat straw. The cost of the building, exclusive of land, was $3.88 per lineal foot, 70 plus 128 feet, thus housing 1,250 layers at 62 cents per ten. The usual estimate is $1 per hen. |