Almost every one is desirous of keeping a few fowls, and while they desire to give them fresh food, earth, etc., it is often difficult so to do, when kept in any stationary coop.

The accompanying cut, taken from the Cottage Gardener, presents a convenient and at the same time cheap design for use on small places, and we imagine will be of interest to a great number of our readers. It is exceedingly portable, as light as possible consistent with durability, and very economical of space, besides possessing excellent interior arrangements for the comfort of the fowls for roosting, laying. etc. The nests are so arranged that any lady can collect the eggs without going inside the house. The open space under the house affords ample retreat for the inmates on wet days. The whole being mounted upon wheels, and provided with side fall-down lever handles, it can readily be moved about, and these houses represent one of the most useful improvements in poultry arrangements.

Fig. 154. - Portable Poultry House.

They are equally adapted to either garden or farming purposes, the land becoming enriched and cleared from insects at a small cost, with benefit to both proprietor and fowls.