AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 



sun's rays and allows the windows to be placed 

 high up, giving the sunlight far back in the pens, 

 and therefore provides the best possible conditions 

 of sanitation, warmth, brightness and dryness; it 

 throws all the rainwater to the rear, lessening the 

 length of eaves-trough one-half and does away with 

 the pernicious eaves-drip down in front, keeping 

 the front of the house and the ground in front of 

 that dry. A house with all of its roof sloping to 

 the north is cooler in the summer, because it is 

 never exposed to the vertical rays of the sun. Also, 

 when the slope is all toward the north, a roof cov- 

 ered with prepared roofing will last much longer. 

 A leaky poultry house is an abomination, and 

 with the many excellent brands of prepared roofing 

 now on the market there is no excuse for a bad 

 roof. A roof covered with this material makes a 

 tighter house than one covered with shingles, and 

 does it with less cost. Also, a roof covered with 

 prepared roofing may be given a smaller degree of 

 slant than a shingled roof, and that is an important 

 point in poultry house construction, because it 

 makes possible a type of house sufficiently high in 

 the rear without excessive height in front in order 

 to give enough slant to the roof. A shingle roof, 

 however, has the advantage of responding less 

 readily to outside weather conditions, and there- 

 fore is more cool and pleasant than other kinds 

 in hot summer weather. 



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