THE POULTRY HOUSE AND YARD.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4406, 28 September 1871, Page 3

THE POULTRY HOUSE AND YARD.

The following is quoted from the Albany Country d'cnflnnan: — "A hundred fowls is the largest number that can be kept in one building or yard to advantage. It is of this number I speak in the present calculations. Therefore, if any one wishes to keep a larger number, he has only to increase the size of the building in proportion ; set it on a largo pteee of ground, and divide it off into one to four parts, running their yards north, east, south, and west, say for 400 fowls, and sfcill all be under one roof. The main building should be not less than 22 by 30 feet, S feet posts, 'match-boarded on the outside, and lathed and plastered on the inside, except about 3 feet up from the fleor, which should be sheathed with boards, to prevent the fowls from eating off the plastering. This building should be divided into three rooms — a roosting, feeding or living, and egg room ; also a covered run, 5 feet wide, on the outside of building, similar to a piazza. The feed room, if possible, to face the south. The yard, if the fowls are constantly confined, of a size not le3s than one square rod to a fowl. This yard, if not naturally so, must be made dry with fine gravel and sand, supplied from time to time ; part of it in grass, the other part ploughed up two or three times a year. A few shade trees would also be an improvement. The floor of the house should be of cement, clay, or brick ; I prefer the first. The floor of the roost-room, except 1} z feet all round it for a walk, should be sunk 6 inches lowerthan the other floor, to catch the droppings of the fowls, to receive the sweepings of the other looms, and loam and plaster as may be desired. The roosts should not be over 4 feet in height ; 2by 4 scantling split in two, corners rounded off, make good roost poles. The framework made of 2 by 3 stuff, set at an angle of 45 ; and two roosters on each side, — the first one 1 foot from the floor, the other one the space divided. If the roosts are higher than 4 feet, the fowl is apt to injure herself by jumping down. The Qgq-room should have two shelves, 20 inches wide, on each side of the room, the first one 1 foot from tho floor, the other 3 feet from it. Nest 3 12 inches square on inside, G inches deep, made to slide on the shelf like a drawer ; no bottom to them, as the shelf answers the same purpose, and they are more easily kept clean. This will allow a w alk for the hens of G inches in front of the nests. The room should have a small window, not to be made too light ; the roost-room one window ; the feed room, four windows of good size, light and pleasant, as iv this room the poultry spend a good share of their time when shut in. In one corner of this room should be a small slatted room, with a single roost in it ; this I denominate the state prison. All windows hung on hinges, with good fastenings, and slatted with 1 by 2 inch slats, 3 inches apart. ' All inside doors of slats— the outside ones double, i.e., board, and slat ono to be used in fine weather. Frames, with little doors or slides, placed in and near bottom and top of room for ventilation, closed in cold weather. (A roof ventilator 13 cold and generally leak}'.) The run floor should be the ground, containing three frames 3by 3 feet — 6 inches deep — lot; into the ground to hold ashes and dust for dusting ; the rest of the floor 3 inches deep with fine gravel — the outside of the run slatted with 1 by 3 inch, stuff, 2 inches apart, and a slat door leading into the yard. The main yard of good-sized posts, 74 feet out of around, 8 feet apart, with five cross bars, 1 by 3 inch stuff, two laths high, nailed one over the other, the top one painted and projecting 0 inches above the top rail."

Hint? to \Tr>thora: Trtat your baby kindly but not cordial-ly. A LA.D\ 'S TK^rlftlOXY.— Professor Barry: Sir,— .Your prepar.itio'i (Barry's T. icopheroa*) hu sustained Tonr assertion t hat it would restore my hair, which I 1 >st from sicVnc-^ I have used it erery momin" for «bout 'our months, And my h»Jr is now rerylhick and »3jat an inch long,— Mary E. Crandall, No. 27. Jl»cl>oug*ll-itrect, New York.— Kemptbome, Protier »nd Co., wholeiala agents, Dnntdia and Aacklaod.