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Title: Common sense in the poultry yard : A story of failures and successes. Including a full account of 1000 hens and what they did, with a complete description of the houses, coops, fences, runs, methods of feeding, breeding, marketing, etc. ...
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Haig, J. P
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: New York : The Industrial Publication Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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s. Such acontrivance is proof against sneak thieves. A burglar would breakthe whole house up in half a minute, so there is no use in puttingon strong and costly locks. Along the front is a row of pickets, to prevent the birds fromflying over. The pickets are 16 inches long, being simply laths cutinto three parts. On each corner there are handles consisting of pieces of boardsshaved into such a shape as to be easily grasped by the hand.They are firmly secured to the front and back by means of wroughtnails, clinched. Four stout boys have no difficulty in ;)icking upone of these houses and moving it wherever it is wanted. Indeed,two men can do it. The inside of the house—sides, ends and roof—are lined withtarred paper, nailed to cleats one inch thick, which are fastened tothe house as detailed in our description of the large house. Thismakes the house very warm, and the matched boards make it per-fectly rain proof. To protect it from the weather it was coated IN THE POULTRY YARD. 105
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Fig. 9.—HOUSE FOR BREEDING STOCK. lo6 COMMON SENSE with crude petroleum laid on like paint. Of all the preservativesthat we have ever tried, this is the cheapest and best.* Another important point—ventilation—was not forgotten. Incold winter weatlier, very little ventilation is needed, and I dependedlargely upon the cracks round the door and other openings tosupply it. But cracks and openings are bad things, and to haveleft a crack at the bottom, and made a hole at the top, would havepassed such a current of cold air over the fowls as might haveproduced frozen combs and wattles. To avoid this, three holes—2inches in diameter—were made along the front—that is at thehighest part of the house. Under these holes was placed a thinboard shelf, 14 inches wide, and during cold weather the space be-tween the shelf and the roof is packed with straw. This, of course,puts a complete stop to all currents, but every chemist knows thatthrough such porous packmg the foul air will pass off

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