FOR ALL CLIMATES 



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curtains in the front ot the house or in front of the roosts are both 

 unnecessary and undesirable. 



You are building an open-front house because you wish to have 

 your fowls supplied with an abundance of pure, fresh air, day 

 and night? All right, then; make it an open-front in fact, and 

 don't offer a sop to your qualms and fears by stopping up the 

 opening with cloth or burlap. The Woods house described in this 

 book has been used successfullly and with most satisfactory results 

 in the deep snows and cold of British Columbia, in all parts of the 

 United States, including bleak, cold and windy lake shore and 

 seashore sections. When properly constructed it has proved a safe 



View of north and west sides of Dr. P. T. Woods' Improved Open-air 

 Poultry House as completed and ready for painting. Roof is covered with 

 Amatite. (Photo by Dr. Woods.) 



and comfortable poultry house and one that is economical and 

 easy to build. It provides for ample sunlight where it is most 

 needed, in both front, and rear of the house, and it is sufficiently 

 open in front to afford an abundance of pure open air day and 

 night, with no discomfort to the fowls and no dangerous drafts 

 about the roosts. 



Sunlight and pure fresh open air are Nature's best preventives of 

 disease, destroyers of dangerous germs, and promoters of health, 

 vitality and comfort. Both sunlight and fresh air are necessary to 

 the health and well being of our poultry and to obtaining the best 



