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Show Wintering- Poultry, As to the kind of a poultry-houso noedod, much will dopend upon tbo number of fowls you proposo to lcoop, and nlso upon tho amount you doslro to spood for utility or ornamonL Twolvo fowla roqulro a room twelve foot square. Tho choapost and most convenient poultry-houso is built of Sxl joists for ft frame, nnd covered with tnatchod boards. Tho roof and walls should bo covered with tar jiapor. and when dressed with a coating coat-ing of coal tar will bo out! rely impervious im-pervious to tho ntmosphoro or storm, and will lust for many years. I build my houses about ten feet wldo, with ft shod roof, Bays a writer In Amorlcan Agriculturist, tho front posts about seven feet high, thotmck posts nbout flvo foot. Tho front faces south nnd Is llghtod with ono good-slzod window every twolvo foot. Most poultry-houses poultry-houses lmvo too much class, giving too much boat at mid-day und too much cold at midnight. Even with tho nbovo described windows, tightly fitting shutters nro needed for protection protec-tion on cold Winter nights. Tho most Important matter In connection with poultry-houso is vontllatlon. No nnl-mill nnl-mill on tho farm needs so frequent ;bangc of air ns tho poultry. . Somo poultrymon prefer n, ground ' ii m fl floor, olhors a board fioor, and still others n rcmonted floor. I prefer a j tight bo ml floor, with n chani o for tho l chicks to got nt tho ground through a run Into tho yard when thoy doslro to. , |