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Show SUMMER HOUSE FOR POULTRY Coop Shown in the Illustration Will Provide Comfortable Place for Hens in Hot Weather. Good poultry quarters are needed, and for warm weather the house shown in the accompanying picture will answer the purpose exceedingly well. It is built eight feet wide, 12 feet long, seven feet high in front and 4 feet at the rear. It should have a light framework, consisting of 2x4's, for the sills and caps, and siding sid-ing of inch stuff, preferably matched. I Summer House for Hens. nailed on perpendicular as indicated, writes Fred O. Sibley in the Farm and Home. The front, which is to face toward the south, has a good-sized window, and at each corner are two openings, 12x16 Inches, for the hens to pass. In the end' opposite the door there ia a wooden shutter about tv:o feet square for air and ventilation, and this, as well as the window, should have strong, fine meshed wire nailed on the outside. The roosts are located in the rear, up under the roof, with a platform below to catch the droppings, 3 feet wide, extending the whole length of the house. Beneath this is another platform, three feet wide, for the nests. For hens on the range such a house Is just the thing, and needs no floor if the location is well drained and dry. It will shelter from 50 to 60 owls comfortably. The interior ought to be kept well whitewashed, and if the house is set in the shade of a large tree it will be all the more pleasant for the hens to go into on a hot day. The cost of building this kind of summer "cottage" will be from $12 to $15. It pays to use good lumber, and two or three good coats of paint should be applied. |