POULTRY HOUSES 15 



be tacked over the inside of the ventilator and removed 

 as soon as the cold weather is gone. 



Considerable attention has been given to poultry-house 

 ventilation, and hundreds of suggestions have been made 

 for different kinds of ventilators. The most recent ven- 

 tilator is the Cornell wind baffler, which differs materi- 

 ally from the Missouri shutter ventilator. The construc- 

 tion of the Cornell baffler is shown in Fig. 1 (f). This 

 has L-shaped bafflers in place of the flat strips of wood 

 used in the shutter ventilator. It would seem to be 

 almost impossible for rain or snow to pass through the 

 baffler. More glass windows are needed for light in 

 houses where shutters or baffler is used than in houses 

 that have cloth-covered windows. 



POSITION FOR POULTRY HOUSES 



Position for Poultry Houses. Houses for poultry should 

 face toward the south; and to meet this condition con- 

 siderable study in the arrangement and layout of the 

 yard will be at times required. When poultry buildings 

 are erected in the rear of the dwelling house and the 

 front of the dwelling house faces the north, it is easy 

 to have the poultry building in the rear face the south. 

 If the dwelling faces the south, the poultry houses would 

 have to be built facing south, at the rear end of the lot. 



In erecting a poultry house at the rear of the lot 

 facing south, the rear of the building should be next to 

 the back fence so that the watershed of the roof will be 

 away from the center of the yard. To have the neces- 

 sary amount of sunshine and ventilation in a house so 

 placed requires that the south end and a portion of 

 either the east or the west end be of glass and open 

 front, with the roosting place for the hens at the north 

 end of the building. A house so built is shown in 

 Fig. 2. In this illustration the rear part of the poultry 

 building is placed toward the east, the windows facing 

 the south and the west. The reason for locating I':: 



