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Title: Side line poultry keeping : "two dollars a day from poultry and eggs"
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Warren, Edgar, 1858-
Subjects: Poultry Eggs Production
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : C.C. DePuy
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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windows are set 20 inches from the floor. Besidesthe glass windows there are two windows for the admissionof fresh air, each 4 feet long by 3 feet high. These windowsare covered on the outside with poultry wire, and on theinside there are frames made of 3-inch stuff and covered with10-ounce duck. These frames are so arranged that they maybe swung up and fastened to the roof during the day andclosed and buttoned at night, or in stormy weather. As amatter of fact, for eight months in the year the frames arefastened to the roof and are not let down at all. The readerwill perceive that I believe in plenty of fresh air for hens. The arrangement of the interior is very simple. There isa roost platform 16 feet long and 3j/j feet wide on the backside. This platform is 2y2 feet from the floor, and the perchesarc eight inches above it. The platform is boarded in at thewest end, and if one desires he can arrange a curtain to dropdown in front of the birds when they have gone to roost atnight. 31
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:^2 Running- along the west end of the house is a platform 18inches high and 24 inches wide. This platform is for thenests. Formerly I placed the nests under the roost platform,as is commonly the case, but this required so much stoopingand pulling out of nests to gather the eggs that T decidedto introduce a nest platform, and find it a great convenience.The nests are up off the floor, out of the way, and are easilyaccessible to both the laying hen and the owner. The only other furniture in the house is two shelves six:inches from the floor, one for the grit and shell box and theother for the feed hopper. It will be seen that every inch offloor space is available for scratching and exercise. The sides and ends of the house are covered with Xeponsetroofing, painted soon after being put on, and the roof isshingled. A saving in cost might be effected by covering theroof with Neponset, painting it, and then in a few years after,,when the Neponset begins to wear through, putting on.shingles

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