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north and south, as the means of providing more fresh 

 air for the fowls to breathe, thereby enriching their blood 

 with the oxygen it contains and making them better able to 

 resist cold. Some poultrymen have gone so far as to 

 replace the entire south walls of their poultry houses with 

 cloth, but the safer rule appears to be to divide the space 

 that would ordinarily be occupied by glass in equal parts, 

 filling one part with glass and one with cloth. In parts 

 of the country where the thermometer records very low 

 temperatures, additional protection is furnished on cold 

 nights bv a cloth curtain in front of the roosts. This com- 



A Group of Colony Houses on a Suburban Poultry Farm Where Fine 

 Table Eggs are Produced. 



bination of cloth in the south wall and the curtain in front 

 of the roo.sts has proved satisfactory in Maine, ^linnesota 

 and Canada, as well as in states in warmer latitudes. 



Large Versus Small Houses. 



The question of large or small houses is an open one. 

 Whether the colony system or the continuous house system 

 is best for housing the laying stock depends considerably 

 on the prevailing conditions of environment, the size of the 

 business to be conducted and other factors too numerous to 

 mention. 



