48 EGGS AND POULTRY 
flock. Fowls should not be crowded to have 
less than 10 cubic feet of air space. 
Compare the advantages of this house with 
the small ones aside from the cost. The 
cleaning of the droppings from the roosting 
board takes only a few minutes because there 
is plenty of head room and room to use the 
hoe, and the droppings are carried to a chute 
that dumps them in an outside manure shed, 
all in less time than you could clean three or 
perhaps two small houses. The disinfecting 
and whitewashing can be done in the same 
comparatively shorter time, with a sprayer 
and plenty of room in which to work. Feed- 
ing and watering, which with a number of 
houses such as you would have in the spring 
in raising little chicks, is a very considerable 
item of work, but in the big house is a very 
easy matter. 
Best of all is the fact that all this work can 
be done, practically without going outside 
the house, but inside under cover from wind, 
rain, snow and sun. This one feature alone 
offsets any advantages the small house may 
have, as there are many days during the year 
when outside work is both unpleasant and 
unhealthy. 
