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POULTRY HOUSES. 



POULTRY HOUSES. 



The principal considerations in a good Poultry House, are 

 warmth, light, and ventilation. Warm in winter, because fowls 

 will require less food, will be healthier, and will lay more eggs. 

 Ventilated in summer, and in mild winter weather, because 

 fresh air is absolutely essential to all animated nature, and par- 

 ticularly to the dung-hill fowl. Well lighted, because the fowls 

 delight to be in a cheerful place, and to bask in sunshine 

 admitted through the windows of their tenements in cold 

 weather. What the best form or style is for a poultry house, 



