Make all roosts on the same level.  The ladder arrangement is a nuisance and offers no advantage.  Arrange the roosts so that they may be readily removed for cleaning.  Do not fill the chicken-house full of roosts.  Put in only enough to accommodate the hens, and let these be on one side of the house.  The floor under the roosts should be separated from the feeding floor by a board set on edge.

For laying flocks the nests must be clean, secluded and plentiful.  Boxes under the roost-platform will answer, but a better plan is to have the nest upon a shelf along a side wall so arranged as to allow the hen to enter from the rear side.  Nests should be constructed so that all parts are accessible to a white-wash brush.  The less contrivances in a chicken-house, the better.

The farmer can get along very well without any chicken-yard at all.  It will, however, prove a very convenient arrangement if a small yard is attached to the chicken-house.  The house should be arranged to open either into the yard or out into the range.  This yard may be used for fattening chickens or confining cockerels, or perhaps to enclose the flock during the ripening of a favorite tomato or berry crop.

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