AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
simply by using a few fancy ornaments and by 
keeping the house and fence attractively painted 
and vines and shrubbery growing along the fence 
and in the yards. 
Cheap Poultry Houses. For the benefit of those 
who wish inexpensive poultry houses, I might state 
that it does not pay to try to economize too closely 
along this line; for fowls cannot thrive and pay a 
profit in the face of poor housing. With the pres- 
ent high prices of lumber and labor, it is next to 
impossible to build a satisfactory poultry house 
from new materials at a really cheap price. It is 
better to have a small house that is tight and well 
constructed, than a large one of inferior quality 
and unsatisfactory design. 
Best Width for Poultry Houses. The more 
nearly square a house is, the less the cost of con- 
struction. However, no poultry house should ever 
be more than fifteen or sixteen feet deep, or the sun 
cannot reach the depths most remote from the win- 
dows. Twelve to fourteen feet is the depth pre- 
ferred by the author for continuous houses. 
Modern Continuous House No. 1. This build- 
ing is 36 feet long by 12 feet wide, and contains 
three sections, or divisions, each 12 feet square. 
The front elevation is 9 feet and the rear 5 feet. 
The roof is covered with shingles. The windows 
are composed of two sashes, each containing six 
panes of glass 9 x 14 inches in size. The curtains 
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