AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
sun’s rays and allows the windows to be placed 
high up, giving the sunlight far back in the pens, 
and therefore provides the best possible conditions 
of sanitation, warmth, brightness and dryness; it 
throws all the rainwater to the rear, lessening the 
length of eaves-trough one-half and does away with 
the pernicious eaves-drip down in front, keeping 
the front of the house and the ground in front of 
that dry. A house with all of its roof sloping to 
the north is cooler in the summer, because it is 
never exposed to the vertical rays of the sun. Also, 
when the slope is all toward the north, a roof cov- 
ered with prepared roofing will last much longer. 
A leaky poultry house is an abomination, and 
with the many excellent brands of prepared roofing 
now on the market there is no excuse for a bad 
roof. A roof covered with this material makes a 
tighter house than one covered with shingles, and 
does it with less cost. Also, a roof covered with 
prepared roofing may be given a smaller degree of 
slant than a shingled roof, and that is an important 
point in poultry house construction, because it 
makes possible a type of house sufficiently high in 
the rear without excessive height in front in order 
to give enough slant to the roof. A shingle roof, 
however, has the advantage of responding less 
readily to outside weather conditions, and there- 
fore is more cool and pleasant than other kinds 
in hot summer weather. 
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