Making a Poultry House

MAKING A POULTRY HOUSE
THE HOUSE & GARDEN MAKING BOOKS
It is the intention of the publishers to make this series of little volumes, of which Making a Poultry House is one, a complete library of authoritative and well illustrated handbooks dealing with the activities of the home-maker and amateur gardener. Text, pictures and diagrams will, in each respective book, aim to make perfectly clear the possibility of having, and the means of having, some of the more important features of a modern country or suburban home. Among the titles already issued or planned for early publication are the following: Making a Rose Garden ; Making a Lawn ; Making a Tennis Court ; Making a Fireplace ; Making Paths and Driveways ; Making a Rock Garden ; Making a Garden with Hotbed and Coldframe ; Making Built-in Bookcases, Shelves and Seats ; Making a Garden to Bloom This Year ; Making a Water Garden ; Making a Garden of Perennials ; Making the Grounds Attractive with Shrubbery ; Making a Naturalized Bulb Garden ; with others to be announced later.
It is not a difficult matter to care for a small flock, but the old unsanitary methods of housing will have to be abandoned
By M. ROBERTS CONOVER
NEW YORK McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY 1912
Copyright, 1912, by McBRIDE, NAST & CO.
Published May, 1912
Making a Poultry House
To close one's eyes and dream of a home in the country with its lawns, its gardens, its flowers, its songs of birds and drone of bees, proves the sentimental in man, but he is not practical who cannot call into fancy's realm the cackle of the hen.
Having conceded her a legitimate place in the scheme of the country home, good housing is of the utmost importance, and it is in regard to this that one easily blunders. Few would idealize a rickety hovel as a home for the flock, but many of us, while we would not put our highly prized birds into an airtight box, so over-house them that they weaken instead of profiting by our care.