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must be warm in winter, yet well ventilated. A barn- 

 or shed-cellar opening to the south makes an ideal 

 place for small flocks of fowls, but it must be dry. It 

 may be kept open in all but stormy weather, if a warm 

 place is provided for the fowls at night or in extremely 

 cold weather. Curtains of burlap or loosely woven 

 cloth will answer the purpose of glass for doors or win- 

 dows in houses that are closely built. 



FIG. 83 A Modern Poultry House with Scratching Shed 

 Between Two Pens. 



Of special houses there are two or three types in gen- 

 eral use the colony house where twenty to fifty fowls 

 are kept (a very satisfactory colony is shown in Fig. 

 83), the long range of houses where the same num- 

 ber are kept in separate pens, and the large, high and 

 well lighted house where several hundred are kept 

 together. The small colony house is most cheaply built 

 from the fact that light and cheap building material 

 may be used, but it is exposed to the weather oh all 

 four sides and therefore needs the best possible protec- 



