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MAKING A POULTRY HOUSE

THE HOUSE & GARDEN ~MAKING~ BOOKS

It is the intention of the publishers to make this series of little volumes, of which Making a Poultry House is one, a complete library of authoritative and well illustrated handbooks dealing with the activities of the home-maker and amateur gardener. Text, pictures and diagrams will, in each respective book, aim to make perfectly clear the possibility of having, and the means of having, some of the more important features of a modern country or suburban home. Among the titles already issued or planned for early publication are the following: Making a Rose Garden; Making a Lawn; Making a Tennis Court; Making a Fireplace; Making Paths and Driveways; Making a Rock Garden; Making a Garden with Hotbed and Coldframe; Making Built-in Bookcases, Shelves and Seats; Making a Garden to Bloom This Year; Making a Water Garden; Making a Garden of Perennials; Making the Grounds Attractive with Shrubbery; Making a Naturalized Bulb Garden; with others to be announced later.

MAKING A POULTRY HOUSE

By M. ROBERTS CONOVER

NEW YORK McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY 1912

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY McBRIDE, NAST & CO.

Published May, 1912

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION 1

SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS FOR HOUSES 7

FLOORS AND FOUNDATIONS 23

THE ROOF 28

WALLS, WINDOWS AND VENTILATION 33

THE DOOR OF THE POULTRY HOUSE 40

NESTS AND ROOSTS 43

THE RUN 50

SOME HINTS ON UPKEEP 52

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

UNSANITARY HOUSING MUST GIVE WAY TO MODERN METHODS Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

A COLONY HOUSE RECOMMENDED BY THE OREGON EXPERIMENT STATION 12

TWO PORTABLE COLONY HOUSES ADAPTABLE FOR THE HOME FLOCK 16

BROOD HOUSES FOR THE YOUNG BIRDS 20

FLOORS OF EARTH AND OF WOOD 26

THE SINGLE-PITCH ROOF IN A SERIES OF CONNECTED HOUSES 30

A COMBINED POULTRY HOUSE AND PIGEON LOFT 38