Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1877 — Hew to Make a Hennery. [ARTICLE]

Hew to Make a Hennery.

We advise every man to build a hennery on the same principle that a farmer would build a barn—first for comfort; second, for convenience; and then add as much for elegance and style as he is willing to pay for. But such an expense should not be carried to the business account, to be settled out of the profits of the stock; but, rather, to the account of-ornament, to be paid in the owner's satisfaction at line appearances. The plan we would adopt for a poultryhouse is this: Build on a southerly slope, if you can. Dig out for a back wall, to be cemented up. Then lay upon it a shed roof, the roof ami sides shingled with tarred paper between the boards ami shingles. It should be ten feet high in the front and five in the rear. On the inside have a walk three feet wide running the whole length high enough from the ground to let the fowls under, to scratch and go out into the! yard. Lay a floor over the part, with she shelves under them to catch the droppingsj so arranged as to be removed j and cleaned once a week. The ; nests for large hens should be 1 a foot high ami small at the entrance, running back two feet. With such nests as these hens seldom learn to eat eggs. Fasten the nests on the parti ] tion which separatee the walk from the coop. A bmldiiifg thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide may be separated into three rooms, large enough for twenty-five fowls to room. Such a building can be pu4np for fifty dollars, and is worth as much for all practical purposes as an elegant building, while everybody that <a'n afford to kt ep fowls cap afford such a henuery‘.-LA . Y. Meptncltirt,: