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believed to be the best and most practical houses 

 that farmers can use, since they save both in labor 

 and money. 



Next to the tight or closed house is the curtain 

 front house, with a scratching shed. In this style 

 one is obliged to provide a combination building, 

 which practically means two houses to each flock, 

 an open front shed and a closed roosting house. 

 As the fowls during the greater part of the time 

 are in either the shed or the roosting house, and 



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must occupy the latter at night, one has a house 

 capacity equal only to the size of the roosting house, 

 no matter how large the scratching shed may be. 

 At night it has all of the advantages of the closed 

 house. These fowls spend a very large part of 

 their time on the roost. They need fresh air while 

 there, just as much as they do at other times, probably 

 even more. In closed roosting quarters they have 

 to breathe impure air, and that means loss of vitality 

 and liability to disease. The open front is superior 

 to the curtain front, because as the latter is much 



