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them somewhat ornamental, but for a house for ordinary 

 purposes I strongly recommend this. This picture shows a 

 single-pitched roof. It is not very high. In fact, it is not 

 head room that you want, but it is floor room. We do not give 

 though so much room to our poultry as we did years ago. This 

 house is divided into two parts. On one side they are running 

 about thirty hens, and on the other side about sixty. In speak- 

 ing of houses of that kind I am reminded that one trouble 

 with poultrymen has been that when they double up their hens 

 they do not double up the amount of feed they give them. 

 They forget to give them enough to eat. It is well to bear that 

 in mind. 



Now by looking at this picture you will notice that under 

 this window there is a little muslin curtain. That muslin 

 curtain does not extend to the ground but to the part that 

 comes next to the ground. By putting it on in that way it 

 serves as a wind break. No wind can come in at the bottom 

 of my curtain. The air, of course, circulates through that 

 curtain, but no wind comes in. Some of these houses have 

 curtains which come down to within a foot of the bottom. 

 Back of that place where you see the curtain is where we have 

 the dust bath. This afternoon I noticed that there was nothing 

 said about dust baths. I imagine that you people down here 

 have something which takes the place of the dust bath. In 

 our houses these dust baths are placed where the sun shines 

 right through this window and inside there is a sloping parti- 

 tion which keeps the dust from flying into the room. Mr. 

 Rice said that he regarded the dust bath as very essential. 

 It is usually crowded all the time with hens. Up in our 

 section they use soft coal ashes with plaster mixed. In 

 pleasant weather this opens outward, or that window opens on 

 the outside, which allows the dust to go out. Then above 

 that is another glass window which opens on the outside also, 

 but that does not show down here. That serves to ventilate 



