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Making Money
On the Farm
X. Poultry Houses and
Equipment
By C. V. GREGORY.
Author of "Homo Course In Modern
Agriculture"
Copyright, 1909, by American fret
Annotation
FOR tlio mouoy invested nnd
work applied poultry Is onu
of the most prolltnhlo buIo Hues
on the farm. Indeed, ninny
farms re run at n profit with poultry
nlone. If poultry Is ptofltahlu on n
place where nil tho feed must ha
bought It should be doubly so on
the general farm, where much of Its
feed Is made up of waste products.
Too often tho work of caring for tho
poultry Is left to the women and chil
dren. Much of It la light work that
they can do all right, but tho inau of
the plnce should not consider it be
neath his dignity to lend n helping
hand when It Is needed.
if poultry is to be kept at a profit
Boino kind of shelter other than tho
machine shed, tho apple trees or tho
cow stnblo will hnvo to bo provided.
A good, warm poultry houso is abso
lutely necessnry If winter eggs nro to
be secured, At SO to CO cents n dozen
Winter egga will soon pay the coat of
building n house of this kind, to Bay
nothing of the superior health of the
Hod;.
The theory that poultry docs best
when left to Its own resources Is about
exploded lu enlightened communities,
it has been demonstrated over and
over again that no form of domestic
creature kept for profit responds more
readily to good treatment than this
same barnyard fowl. 'That It has al
ways more than paid Its way even
when neglected shamefully is but nn
indication of what It would do under
better tteatnient.
Locating the Poultry House
The poultry house should be loented
near the other buildings. The chick
ens will go to the barnynrd to scratch
nnyway. and If the poultry houso Is
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too far away they will roost In tho
barns and sheds rather than return to
It The poultry house should not be
too far from tho dwelling either, in
order that it may uot be too Incon
venient to care for the poultry. The
ground where it Is placed should be
fairly high and naturally well drained.
A damp poultry houso fosters all sorts
of diseases.
The slw of the poultry houso de
pends uhiu the number of fowls kept,
it is estimated that about live square
feet of tloor spate should be allowed per
fowl. If they can be out of doors most
of the time they can get along with
considerably less. Tho best kind of
house to build Is the scratching shed
type, built with u shed roof. The high
Bide should bo to the south. About
half of this house should be parti
tioned off for a scratching shed. Tho
south side of this shed part is to bo
left open, covered only with wiro net
ting to keep tho fowls in. If tho back
and sides of this room nro tight and
the bottom boarded up a foot or two
there will be little draft and tho
fowls will be comfortable oven in the
coldest weather. The iloor of this
shed part may be of dirt and should
be kept covered with several inches of
straw.
The remainder of the liouso should
have n tloor, preferably of cement. A
cement floor Is easily kept elenu nnd Is
little more expensive than a wooden
one. The chief ndvantngo Is that It
keeps out rats and other crmln better
than any other kind of tloor. Neither
does It furnish any crevices In which
lice nnd mites can hide. The.se pests
nre the worst enemies to poultry cul
ture, and care should be taken hi build
ing u house to leave as few cracks
whero they can hide na possible.
Value of a Curtain Front.
There should bo several windows in
the south side of the house to supply
light. Light Is one of the best disin
fectants. It docs much to keep tho
fowls free from dlsensc and happy and
contented. To provide for ventilation
there Is nothing equal to the "curtain
front." This Is a largo squaro of mus
lin fitted into a frame tho same as a
window. This allows n gradual ad
mission of fresh air without drafts.
The exchange of air takes place .slowly
enough, so that it docs not "lower the
temperature of the houso too much.
Considerable light comes through the
curtain also, and less heat escapes
through It at night than through glass
windows. The curtain has tho further
advantage of being cheap. No poultry
I -.we should be put up without one.
vVhelher built of lumber or of some
n!Kr material.- the poultry liouso
ebould be tight. Drop siding Is good
material for the hide walls. A single
wall Is the cheapest nnd answers the
purpose vory well. It costs only n llt
tlo extra, howevor, to lath and plaster
tho inbldc, and buch a house Is more
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desirable in regions where tho winters
nro extremely cold. It docs not pay to
paper the Inside of tho house, na tho
Dittos will And a congenial homo bo
tween the paper nnd the wall.
Roottc and Nest Doxes.
Part of the main part of the houso
should be given ovor to roosts nnd the
rest used for nest hoses. It Is hotter
to have the roosts nlong the north side
A muslin curtain in ranged on a roller,
so that It can be lot down lu front of
tho fowls on cold nights, does much to
keep them comfortnble. The roosting
space to be allowed to each fowl Is
s to tvole Inches, according to size.
Two by fours set edgewise, with tho
sharp corners rounded off, make good
roosts. They should be set'In notches,
fo that they can be easily removed to
ho cleaned nnd disinfected. The drop
pings should be removed every week
or two nnd not left for a year, as Is so
often done. If plenty of straw Is used
on the cement under the roosts It la
hut n short Job to throw the excrement
out of a hole back of the roostB nnd put
In fresh bedding. It la labor that will
bo well repaid, for a clean, sweet
smelling houso Is essential to egg pro
duction. A little slaked lime thrown around
under the roosts helps to keep down
bad rdors. Sprinkling the houso with
coal tnr dip nnd whitewashing tho
roosts nnd walls onco In awhile aro
also good practices.
The nest boxes should be provided
with a cover and so Arranged ns to bo
dark and secluded Inside, na the hens
prefer to lay In this kind of plncc.
Where n specialty Is made of poultry
It pays to use trap nests. Those aro
bo arranged that the hen Is caught
when bhe goes In to Iny and cannot
get out until tho attendant comes
along nnd releases her. lly having
tho hens numbered with leg bauds a
record can bo kept of the eggs laid by
ench one. Thus those thnt never lny
can be culled out nnd sent to the
butcher nnd the egga of the highest
producing ones kept for raising pul
lets to Increase the flock. In this way
the average egg yield enn be lncronsed
considerably. It Is Important In this
connection to make especial note of
those hens which do most of their
laying in the winter months, ns they
are of considerably more vnlue than
the ones thnt lay In the summer, when
eggs nro cheap.
Yards and Fences.
On the farm there Is little need for
many yards about tho poultry house.
The chief need for fences Is to keep
the poultry away from the garden nnd
house. For this purpose woven wlro
fence with hexagonal meshes Is best
The meshes should be small enough at
the bottom to keep out tho small chick
ens. The wlro should not bo. smaller
than eighteen or nineteen gauge. An
Important point to look to Is the gab
vanlzlng. This gnlvanlzlng is n layer
of zinc that is coated over the wlro to
keep It from rusting. Thero nro two
methods of galvanizing, known ns "aft
er" and "before." Tho former is ap
plied to fencing galvanized after it is
woven nnd tho Intter to thnt galvanized
before. The "after" galvanized fenc
ing can be told from the fact that tho
Joints where the cross wires nro twist
ed together nre filled with zinc. When
tho wlro Is galvanized beforo weaving
tho zinc is cracked moro or less in the
weaving process nnd rust readily gets
n foothold. The "after" galvanized
wire sometimes costs n little more, but
it lasts about five times as long.
Coops.
Tho chief equipment, aside from
houses and fences, is coops. It Is more
economical to mnko these fairly large,
so us to hold n hundred chickens or so.
A coop sixteen feet long, two feet
wide nnd about two feet high In front,
with tho roof sloping toward the back.
Is convenient nnd cheap. It can be dl
vldcd Into eight or ten compartments
nnd will do for ns many hens and their
broods. The partitions should be about
six feet long nnd a foot high. Thla will
allow them to project In front nbout
four feet Laths aro nailed nlong the
front and over the tops of theso parti
tion boards, making n little runway In
front of each coop. One of the laths
should bo removable to let tho lien lu
and out as soon as tho chicks are big
enough to follow her nbout.
While such coops nro cheap, they
have one serious fault, and that la
that they are not big enough for the
chickens after they get to bo two or
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thrco months old. "Thero is no place
like home" to chickens, nud it Is a
great deal of trouble to teach them tc
forsake .their coops and go Into the
poultry houso nights. This trouble can
be avoided by building a number of
small colony houses. A convenient
sizo for these houses is 8 by 10 feet.
Buch a houso will hold a hundred
chicks until they nre nearly full growu
It may bo built on the same plan ai
the main poultry house without tb
scratching shed part. It should be
built on runners, bo that it can be
hauled about from ono place to an
othor, as is most convenient. Thes
colony houses nro practically Indlspou
sable v hen poultry raising la conducted
on a large bcale. In such case It Ii
best to build thche houses in n Bubstnn
tint fashion, bo thnt they may be used
many seasons. Ah much attention
should also be glvon to keeping them
in good sanitary condition as Is due the
malu poultry house.
Miss M. Ruth Taylor
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