36 THE HOME POULTRY BOOK 
slightly higher temperature resulting from the 
warmer air in the house will cause the snow on 
the glass to melt and run off. 
Speaking broadly, the most satisfactory house for 
the average beginner is one the dimensions of which 
are about 10x12, with a shed roof seven feet high 
in front and four feet at the rear. Such a house 
will accommodate from twenty-five to thirty fowls 
comfortably. 
Renters look with favor upon portable houses, 
for if they move, the house can be taken apart and 
carried along to the new place of residence. Houses 
large enough to care for a dozen or fifteen hens cost 
from twenty to thirty dollars. They have dirt 
floors but are tight and well made, being high 
enough so that the attendant may work in them with 
ease. 
Another form of portable house is much smaller 
and not high enough for a man to enter, but made 
to accommodate eight or ten hens. The roof is so 
arranged that it may be raised from the rear in 
order to facilitate cleaning the dropping board and 
any other work inside the house which may be re- 
quired. A house of this kind with a scratching 
shed attached costs about ten dollars and a dollar 
