Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management . will hang about and make an effort to getin, and the desire to sit soon passes away. The manureis all saved to the best advantage, being applied at once. CHAPTER IV. POULTRY-HOUSE CONVENIENCEa Anything that will add to the ease of managementof the poultry-yard is gladly welcomed. The practiceamong farmers of letting their poultry roost about thefarm buildings upon harrows, plows, wagons, and farmmachinery is growing less prevalent each year, as manyof them are building suitable poultry-houses. PERCHES, ETC. At
Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management . will hang about and make an effort to getin, and the desire to sit soon passes away. The manureis all saved to the best advantage, being applied at once. CHAPTER IV. POULTRY-HOUSE CONVENIENCEa Anything that will add to the ease of managementof the poultry-yard is gladly welcomed. The practiceamong farmers of letting their poultry roost about thefarm buildings upon harrows, plows, wagons, and farmmachinery is growing less prevalent each year, as manyof them are building suitable poultry-houses. PERCHES, ETC. At figure 16 is shown a neat and handy arrange-ment of perches; r, r, r, are scantling, eight feet in. Figr. 16. length, two inches tliick. and three inches wide, madeof some tough, light wood. The upper ends are hingedto the side of tlie building, four feet apart, and are^son-(31) 32 PROFITS IN POULTRY. nected by means of roosts or perches made of octagonalstrips nailed fast to the supports. Perches should beplaced about eighteen inches apart. At any time when itis desired to gather up the droppings, the end of theframe-work is raised and fastened to the ceiling or roofby a hook at w, the whole arrangement being up out ofthe way for thorough cleaning. At the corner of thebuilding, opposite the roost, is placed a box, jo, contain-ing ashes, road-dust, etc., that the fowls may dust them-selves. The box should be two feet square and about onefoot in height, and should be kept half filled with dust-ing material, both summer and winter. In the corneris placed a box, e, and should contain a supply of graveland broken oyster-shells. The foregoing conveniencescost but little and will prove va
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