in curing it, and gives fowls light to see grain scattered in litter. Have 

 just the right amount of glass surface, as too much glass makes a house 

 too warm in the day time and too cold at night. Glass is a ready con- 

 ductor of heat and lets warmth out as quickly as it will admit it. Glass 

 construction is also expensive. Do not allow more than one square foot 

 of glass surface to twelve square feet of floor space and see that the windows 

 are correctly placed. Set the windows high and up and down, not side- 

 ways and low. When they are high the sunlight passes over nearly the 

 whole floor every day, drying and purifying the whole interior. 



If you will look at illustration No. 2 you will see that the sun is at its 

 lowest point from the middle of September to the middle of March, and 

 that is the time when it is the most beneficial as it covers the coldest time 

 of the year. Notice the lines showing the extreme distance that the sun 

 would reach with the tops of the windows at 4}4, 6 l / and 8 feet from the 

 groufTd. With the top of the window at 4 l / 2 feet, the sunlight would never 

 reach further back than 10 feet l l /2 inches. At 6 l / 2 feet, it would reach 14 l / 2 

 feet, while at 8 feet, it would strike the back wall of a sixteen foot house, 

 4 foot above the floor. If lights of glass in window are too small, the 

 sash seriously obstructs the light, while if lights are too large the glass will 

 prove expensive on account of breakage. The proper medium between the 

 two extremes is a size of 8 by 10 inches in a 12-light sash, using two of 

 these windows for a house of 10x12 feet. Single sash is cheaper and also 

 handier, as it can be hinged and hooked to the ceiling, or slid sideways when 

 opened, instead of being raised and lowered as with ordinary sash. 



BUILDING THE HOUSE 



In planning your poultry houses, it is advisable to consider their loca- 

 tion with reference to the economy of time and labor involved in attending 

 to the flocks. It would, of course, be foolish economy to save steps at 

 the expense of thorough care of the fowls, but many plants involve useless 

 time and labor and, in the course of a year, the loss amounts to a con- 

 siderable item. Convenience of operating is a wise forethought. 



Poultry houses may be briefly classed as follows: Continuous houses 

 and colony houses, and either of these may be made in three styles open, 

 closed, and curtain front, and may also include all the intermediate styles 

 that may come under these classifications, to meet the various ideas of differ- 

 ent people and to meet different conditions, but the above classification is 

 correct for all practical purposes and they will all come under these several 

 heads. 



Illustration No. 3. 

 The old style long poultry house. 



THE CONTINUOUS HOUSE The continuous house means several 

 houses under one roof, with partition walls, the wall of one house forming 

 the wall of the next. The advantages of this style are cheap building, 



