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Show COLONY HOUSE IS PROFITABLE Pottetie Many Decided Advantage! Over Permanent Houes All Fixtures Fix-tures Made Removable. Portablo colony houses for the farm flock possess a decided advantage advan-tage over the large permanent house. I make them, however, Just as large as the weight will permit. My aim Is to have them of such weight that they can be moved anywhere on the farm at any season of the year, writes J. T. Campbell in the New England Homestead. Home-stead. When hard and native lumber la used, the maximum size Is 7x9 feet, with rear wall 5 feet 2 Inches and front wall 6 feet 10 Inches. This permits per-mits the use of 12 foot boards without waste, and buildings high enough to work In with comfort. If light lumber Is used in construction construc-tion the cost is Increased somewhat, and we secure the advantage of more room. We find the farm team can. handle a 7x12 or 8x10 house of this kind. We use no upright frame at all. The building is operated by the vertical siding. The runners on which these houses rest aro made from 4x4 hardwood, and are placed the longer way of the house, set under un-der 12 Inches from each aide and the ends flush. This keeps the runners run-ners from weather exposure, and If care Is used to keep them blocked they last as long as the building. The one shown In tho accompanying picture pic-ture is tho latest model. It Is an ob-i ob-i Ject to provide for the admission of an abundance of fresh air without 1 ""TlS -" If3 ' Pi 1 , Colony House In Position. draft. In our earlier buildings we were compelled to use a curtarn tc 1 keep out the storms or snow. W 1 found this curtain more or less of a nuisance, and have gotten rid of il ' in the type of house shown. ' The roof projects over the open-' open-' lng 2 feet and acts as an awning. II ' keeps out snow and rain, but admit 1 plenty of air. Three sides of th building' are lined under with a cheap grade of two-ply roofing felt, whlcli prevents any wind blowing througl ' cracks and causing drafts. BlngU board floors are used, l'erches an in the back part of the building, witt J dropping board under them. Xcsl boxes are under the dropping board , to economize space. The water vessel ves-sel is placed on a shelf 18 lncbci from the floor. I prefer to have all the fixtures, such as nest boxes perches and dropping boards, remov t able. One of these little houses ac commodates 30 to 35 Leghorn fowls, j Eggs From Pure-bred Fowls. It took some of us a good manj 9 years to discover that there was more profit in selling eggs from pure bred fowls at $1.30 and $2 per dozen than from the barnyard variety at 25 cents It is easy to figure that 25 pure bredi will earn more money than 100 bart rards. |
