| Show concrete floors avert dampness in quarters many farmers who in former years lost money in poultry raising are now making mailing it a success all because they are learning that clean dry quarters for poultry keep tho thin flocks healthy and result in larger egg production and better birds for the market A chicken coop with a floor that Is likely to become muddy in wet weather and to become a source of dust in dry weather Is not conducive to healthy poultry J concrete floors ore aie now being laid in chicken coops in increasing numbers the farmer has found that these floors save his flock in many ways wads by prevention of mud and dust and by checking the rat menace concrete floors prevent rats rate burrowing under tho the coops if the floors are surrounded by a low concrete wall about 18 inches high and it if rats do enter the coops through the doors there Is JB no chance for them to burrow into the ground to build nests of rats means a great saving of eggs agga and young chicks A good practical hen house floor Is one two inches thick made of a rich concrete mixture in which three parts of sand are used boone to one part of portland cement this floor aboor should be well smoothed over with a trowel i before e laying a concrete floor floora a matis satisfactory is base should be made to give adequate provision for dral naye an inch fill all of rock reek i or cinders makes a ived buse base for ik crete hen ben bouse floor |
