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The Hen's Habitation. 



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avoid losing heat at night by radiation, some use a burlap cur- 

 tain which is lowered at night. With glass on the south alone 



the hens miss the earliest 

 sun, which is what they 

 need. 



Philander Williams pre- 

 fers windows in the south 

 side, but would also* have 

 one in the east side to 

 catch the morning sun. 



James Rankin thinks a 

 well-arranged poultry-house should 

 face a little to the east of south so 

 that the morning sun in winter will 

 strike upon the glass. A house tbus 

 Q located will always be warm enough 

 in the afternoon with the oblique 



rays of the sun striking in. Too much glass is worse than 

 none at all, as it 

 means extremes 

 of heat and cold. 

 Glass will let out 

 as much heat 

 during the night 

 as it will admit 

 during the day. 

 People generally 

 put by far too 

 much glass in 

 their poultry- 

 houses. 



C. S. Cooper 

 says : ' ' Were I 

 to build a new 



house for poul- ^ FIG. H. 



try I would place the glass in the east and west ends thereof. 



