William A. Radford · Radford Architectural Company · leaf 64
Poultry house of blocks. inches wide should be dug below the frostline. Fill it with concrete consisting of onepart cement, three of sand and six partscrushed stone or gravel. The walls of thechicken house, which should be reinforced … with y2 inch iron rods a foot apart, shouldbe five inches thick. For these forms willbe necessary, allowances being made forthe windows which should be on the southside of the little structure. The roof may-be made with one slat and of reinforcedslabs of a 1-3-5 mixture with wire…
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