Show cheap but ideal floor favored for henhouse A cheap tut but ideal floor can be put in a chicken house by in about eight inches of cinders gravel or cru crushed shedo rock and covering it with about two inches of rich cement tho the porous material un under deethe the cement will break up the soil capillarity aud and tend to keep the floor door dry the filling should bo be tamped camped until it forms a solid base for the concrete hollow tile forms forma a more sa satisfactory base for the concrete and only one half an inch of cement la is needed to cover it tile la Is more expensive than the other filter filler however and sometimes times much harder to get it should be laid in a layer of rand and so the surface of the tile can be made mada as is smooth ns as possible before the cement covering la Is put on A slope of four inches la in twenty feet from the back to the front of the ho house se w will I 1 t tend en d to keep the ilie litter evenly distributed over the floor th this slope will practically eliminate the disagreeable task of scratching the litter out from froia under the dropping boards of the ordinary libuse house there ls no better time of the year to put a floor door in the chich chicken chichen en houm hone than just before tile the pullets are put into their winter whiter quarters |