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quite as comfortable as a flock of thirty birds in a house of same 

 type and size^ close by. 



House sweating and dampness causes no trouble in properly 

 built fresh-air houses. When built of boards covered with shingles, 

 or with some of the graveled felt roofings, I have always found the 

 houses dry and free from frosting. I have had several com23laints 

 of dampness and house sweating in open-front houses where the 

 boards were covered with heavy, smooth, hard-finish roofing. This 



Experimental Woods' Open-air House built in 1908 at Topsfielcl, Mass. 

 This house has a double board floor and is set on posts over which large 

 pans have been inverted to make the house rat proof. View shows south 

 front and west side. (Photo by Dr. Woods.) 



fl-as probably the fault of the roofing used. In one other case the 

 house was too low studded and roof boards were too close to the 

 heads of the roosting fowls. An open-front house should have 

 plenty of head room about the roosts. 



Open-front open-air houses are actually open houses. Tlie open 

 portion of the south front days open night and day the year 



