38 OPEN-AIR POULTRY HOUSES 



open-front house bnilt with a board floor can easily be built that 

 way. One of the first Woods open-air houses was built on stilts 

 2% feet above the ground level and was made rat proof by inverting 

 metal pans over tops of posts before the sills were spiked to the 

 posts. It makes a good house so built. It requires a double board 

 floor. The space beneath the house is used as a run or shelter 

 when the fowls are permitted to run. Such a building is best 

 built on a slope so that soil beneath the house will wash well in 

 heavy storms, otherwise it is difficult to clean out beneath the 

 building. Friends in Massachusetts and in Michigan built a num- 

 ber of Woods houses after this plan and like them very much. See 

 illustrations. 



