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Show GOOD HOUSES FOR CHICKENS Leghorns Stand Cold Weather, Provided Pro-vided They Are Free From Dampness Damp-ness and Draughts. We have one building 18x70 feet and one 1SX12S feet made of matched pine, not doubled or lined, a pitch roof covered with two-ply roofing and dirt floors. Both buildings face the south and each has the south side covered with an equal amount of glass and muslin half-way from the eaves, the latter half enclosed with matched Single-Comb Brown Leghorn, pine. These windows have been opened wide daily regardless of zero weather. Single Comb Brown Leghorns Leg-horns stand cold weather, provided they are free from drafts and dampness, damp-ness, says a writer in an exchange. Our buildings have dirt floors covered cov-ered with one foot of wheat straw. The dropping boards and roosts are cleaned and disinfected with a hot spray from a force pump every two weeks. The broken straw from the floor is placed upon the dropping boards and the floor covered anew with wheat straw. The cost of the building, exclusive of land, was $3.88 per lineal foot, 70 plus 128 feet, thus housing 1,250 layers at 62 cents per hen. The usual estimate is $1 per hen. |