POULTRY HOUSE CONSTRUCTION 



Plenty of light is necessary in a poultry house; 

 sunlight not only carries warmth and good cheer, 



but also tends to arrest disease. But, 

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while too much light is impossible, 



there is such a thing as too much glass in a poul- 

 try house; not only because it makes construc- 

 tion expensive, but also because it makes a house 

 too cold at night and too warm in the day- 

 time, for glass gives off heat at night as readily as 

 it collects it in the daytime. 



Windows should be placed comparatively high 

 up in the walls, and the greatest length should be 

 placed up and down, not horizontally. The time 

 when sunshine is most needed is when the sun is 

 the lowest, that is, from September 21 to March 

 2 1 ; therefore the necessity for having the windows 

 up high enough that the sun may be reflected well 

 back in the pens, as otherwise only the space directly 

 in front of the windows will be reached by the sun. 



Following out this idea, the windows in a nar- 

 row house need not be placed so high as in a house 

 having a greater depth, and consequently the walls 

 would not need to be so high. In a house ten feet 

 deep the highest point of the windows should be at 

 least four and one-half feet from the ground ; while 

 seven feet should be the extreme height with a 

 house fifteen or sixteen feet deep. 



If the front wall is made high, make the rear 

 wall comparatively low, and the house will be 



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