32 THE HOME POULTRY BOOK 
in front and a sharper pitch at the rear. The hens 
roost at the back of the house and the air cushion 
keeps the room so warm that Mr. Tolman finds cur- 
tains unnecessary, although he lives near the coast 
in Massachusetts. 
On the famous Hayward farm at Hancock, N. H., 
“A” shaped houses are used, each accommodating 
a dozen birds. The front is covered only with poul- 
try wire and no protection in the form of curtains is 
given. 
Houses of a type which is the acme of simplicity 
are in common use in Southern New England, many 
of them on the farms of men who make poultry 
keeping a business. They have a double pitch roof, 
seven feet at the ridge and about four at the walls. 
The length of the house is about sixteen feet and 
the width about eight feet; one end, facing the 
south, is open. The fowls roost at the opposite 
end, of course, and thrive in a house of this char- 
acter, which fact satisfies the men who build them 
that the plan is a good one. It is needless to say 
that such a house is inexpensive; and it will provide 
quarters for thirty or more fowls. 
Unless one is prepared to brush off his muslin 
curtains every other day and can resist the impulse 
