CHAPTER III 
THE KIND SOF HOUSE TO BUILD 
HAT a satisfactory thing it would be if 
\) \ one could draw a plan and say, “ That 
is the best kind of poultry house for the 
amateur to build.” But what a riotous time the man 
who should attempt that sort of thing would have! 
Poultry experts differ no less radically than doc- 
tors, and probably more time has been devoted to 
planning poultry houses than to designing churches. 
Of course the writer has his personal pet theory 
about poultry house construction, but he is not 
parading it, for it may change in the future as it 
has in the past. Few poultry keepers indeed would 
construct to-day the kind of house they would have 
built ten years ago. A distinct advance was made 
when the discovery was announced and proved to 
be true that poultry would thrive better in cold but 
dry houses in which there was an abundance of fresh 
air at all times than in very warm houses in which 
the ventilation was poor with the result that moisture 
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