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Show FOR TWO HUNDRED LEGHORNS Structure Shown in Illustration Proved Prov-ed Entirely Satisfactory During Severe Winter. During the severe weather of last winter the house shown in the illustration illus-tration gave us entire satisfaction, writes F. T. Tiffany in Country Gentleman. Gentle-man. In this house we had 1S5 pullets and 15 cockerels, and had no trouble with colds as was the case with an open-front house. This house is 30 feet long, 14 feet wide, 10 feet high in front, and 5 feet high in the rear; on the front side of the house, facing south, are two openings open-ings 3 by 4 feet 6 inches each; these openings are covered on the outside with inch mesh wire to keep out the sparrows; these openings have frames on the inside covered with muslin, which on cold nights is placed over the openings. The addition in the front is 12 feet long by 4 feet 8 inches wide, and is 6 feet 6 inches high where it joins the building, and 3 feet high at the lower side. The roof of this comprises 4 hot-bed sash 3 feet wide by 6 feet long. This is used as a dusting room, aud the roof furnishes light for the rest of the building. These sash are made so they n ill slide down in hot weather or when we wish to put in new dust. There are also in front two openings IS inches high to let the fowls out; these openings have sliding slid-ing doors on the inside. On one end of the building we have a door 3 by 6 feet for entrance. All weather boarding is white pine German Ger-man siding, except on the north side, which is boarded first with barn boards and then with siding over it. The roof is covered with shingles. In3ide the house on the north side is the roosting place; the dropping-board is 2 feet from the floor and is 4 feet wide and runs the length of tha building. Under the dropping board are the nests, 14 by 16 inches. These y . J i 4' V I"' J I ; Si I I. 4'b' - I Practical Poultry House. R, Roosts; D, Dropping Board; N, Nests, P, Perch. rest on a platform composed of two fence boards about 4 inches apart and can be taken out separately to be cleaned. In the rear of the nests is a board 4 inches wide for the hens to light on to enter the nests. The nesta are 15 inches from the floor; in front of the nests is a muslin curtain whicfi hangs within 9 inches of the floor; this makes the nests secluded. The roost poles are about 6 inches above the dropping board and are one foot tpart and run the length of the build-ir build-ir g. This house can be built for less than $2 per fowl., |