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of the building, will make a fine wind break and provide an out- 

 door run for winter use that is well worth while. The shocks 

 are best placed against fencing so that thej' will hold up in high 

 winds. Where a drive or walk runs in front of the house let the 

 row of shocks extend to east and west and turn out the fowls on 

 south side of the rows. 



Wherever houses are located in exposed positions attention given 

 to providing suitable wind breaks will be well repaid. The secret 

 of profitable poultry keeping is making your fowls comfortable at 

 Sll times. Comfort means much. 



Personally I prefer a number of colony houses to a long or 

 continuous poultry house, though there is some saving in labor with 

 the continuous house where a large number of birds can be cared 

 for under one roof. With colony houses conveniently arranged 

 with a view to labor saving, and so disposed as to make best use 

 of the land available for poultry, there is very little extra work 

 and the danger in case of sickness, or other trouble, is very much 

 less than where a long house is used. 



Owing to the wide stretch of open front in a long house I prefer 

 to have a solid partition for every twenty feet of length of the 

 building. 



The plans given in this book are for colony houses but can be 

 made to suit the requirements of anyone who wishes a long house, 

 by simply considering the plans as for one section of a continuous 

 building, and adding as many sections as may be desired to give 

 the length of house wanted. 



The open-front house may be operated with or without yards. 

 For breeding stock plenty of yard room is to be desired. Where 

 fowls are kept for laying only, they may be confined in the house 

 all of the time if not too crowded. One hundred layers may be 

 kept the year 'round in a Woods open-front house 20x20 feet of 

 stud specified in plans given in this book. 



Long, narrow yards are to be preferred to short ones. Where 

 possible each house should have two yards, or double yards, so that 

 one can be cultivated while the other is in use for the fowls. With 

 a long, narrow yard you will need rather less space per bird than 

 where square yards are used. Allow from 50 to 75 square feet of 

 yard space per bird. 



Using open-front colony houses each 20x20 feet, 1,000 breeding 

 birds can be comfortably housed and provided with double yards 

 on al)out tliree acres of land. If there is plenty of land available 

 from four to five acres per thousand bead of breeders can be used 

 to better advantage. If continuous plan house is used 1,000 breeders 



