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Show FOLDING AND PORTABLE HOUSES FOR POULTRY Knock-Down Coops that Glv Perfect Satisfaction Both In Summer and Winter On Put Together In Fifteen Minute) In order to do away with th dla-1 idvantage that th ordinary colony poultry bona ha of being exposed to th weather, even when unoccupied, 3. R. llaawell of Pickaway county, Ohio, ha dealgned a knock-down poultry poul-try bouae, illustrated In American Agriculturist, Ag-riculturist, which I ahown herewith. II eaye they bav given perfect aalla-fnctlon aalla-fnctlon both aa aumuier and winter Quarter. Th sire h has built are respectively respec-tively 7( and (ill feet. Th lumber necessary to construct tbeae two building coat I2MG. Faint and nails wr eilra. They ar put togetbor Folding and Portabl Poultry Houata. with bolt. Instead of irrewa. Th bolt ar about ten Inches long, with ono end half or more tlattened out, and wllh two holea In It lo fnaten to tha aldea of th end on tha other end. Two mun can put up tho amnller on In about It minute. Th roof an each I mad with two piece, and aa I th floor In tb larg one. It la not eaaentlal that ther ahould be a floor, a th bouae ar portabl and ar built on fairly atout acantllnga aa baa framea. Th larger houa la feet high In front and feet at tba back. For people who ar tenant or who have a larg numlrar of fowl In th summer and few In th winter thla kind of a houa will commend Itself highly, because It can be taken apart and stored under a abed, and tbu made to laat many niore yeara than it otherwlae would. Wher ther ara aoveral houses of thla kind each piece) that goo to muko up each Individual house should benr the number of that house, ao there enn be no difficulty In putting Ihe bouae together when th tlm come. |