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house used among trees that a combination roof has. For 

 a permanent house it is well adapted for having windows on 

 all sides, and for the straw-loft method of ventilation, as 

 sliown in Figure 1G4. 



The half monitor roof, as shown in Figure 143, allows a low 

 open front, and at the same time admits the sunlight from 

 above to the back of the pen, where the roosting quarters are. 



Fig. 163 



A cheap in 1 ^ iviceable house for ra[)OiiS and cockerels that are to be 

 marketed before extreme weather sets in. (Courtesy of Kansas Agricul- 

 tviral Experiment Station.) 



Two-story Houses. — A rather infrequent style of house, used 

 with marked success in a few cases, but not fitting in with 

 ordinary general farm conditions very well, is the two-story 

 house. It has some advantage in the cost of construction 

 as compared with one-story liouscs for the same number 

 of hens. It offers the same evils of congestion that the 

 continuous house does. If advantage of this style of house 

 is taken to house a considerable number of birds under one 

 roof it requires that greater attention be given the flocks 

 than is generallj- possible under general farm conditions. 



A successful two-story house sheltering one thousand 

 birdsis shown in ligure lti4. Tliis house runs from northeast 

 to southwest, so that at some time during clear days the sun 



