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such locations much additional labor is required to produce 

 good results from the fowls kept, but it is done time and 

 time again and good egg records and satisfactory profits 

 are made. 



The Necessary Buildings. 



It is decidedly important that the house for the laying 

 fowls provide certain conditions favorable to health and 

 productiveness. The exact manner of providing these 

 conditions is of less importance. An investigation of the 

 houses on the plants of a dozen poultrymen who make 

 the production of eggs the main object of their poultry 

 business is likely to reveal the same number of different 

 constructions. Yet these buildings may all serve the pur- 

 pose with about equal efficiency. The main points to be 

 considered are provision for reasonable warmth, proper 

 ventilation and sufficient light. It makes little difference 

 whether comfortable, healthful quarters are obtained by 

 the use of one combination of building material, whether 

 ventilation is provided by means of straw lofts or curtain 

 fronts, or whether light is admitted through glass windows 

 or cloth-filled apertures; that no method is entirely superior 

 in all respects all experience proves. 



If the amount of money invested is considered in figuring 

 the profits, the houses should be built as simply and cheaply 

 as is consistent with requirements. It is a fact that on most 

 successful poultry plants where the owner depends upon 

 the profit for his support, as well as in many back-lot poultry ' 

 houses, the lumber used is of the cheapest kind, covered 

 and made tight with tar paper or some brand of prepared 

 roofing and siding. Double-wall houses, that is, houses 

 boarded up on the inside and outside of the frame and 

 either packed tight with some sort of filling or made tight 

 to serve as a dead air space, are rapidly going out of use. 

 The single-board structure, covered on the outside with 

 one or two thicknesses of prepared fabric manufactured 

 for the purpose, and perhaps with lining added back of 

 and above the roosts, are proving more satisfactory, even 

 in the coldest parts of the United States and in Canada. 

 It is a fact, usually easy to demonstrate, that a double- 



