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OPEN-AIR POULTRY PIOUSES 



10x18 feet for flocks of 40 to GO. I prefer such houses built the 

 same stud as the 20x20 foot house and to use six-light sash in 

 the monitor top. Tlie large colony house 20x20 feet will give com- 

 fortable quarters for 100 la3-ers or breeders and 150 layers can be 

 lioused in it. There is nothing to be gained by crowding the house 

 to the limit of its capacity. One hundred females and 5 or 6 males 

 are enough to keep in the house for best results, but in the fall and 

 early winter when there is surplus stock on hand and house room 

 is scarce, you can crowd them a little without doing any serious 



DE. P. T. WOODS' IMPEOVED OPEN-AIE POULTEY HOUSE. 



Fig. 1. — This illustration shows four outer sills (4x6 in. spruce, 20 ft. 

 long), and middle sill (4x4 in. spruce) leveled and spiked to posts. 

 Posts are cedar and are set 3 ft. deep in ground. View is from north 

 and west. West posts come higher above ground as house was built 

 without grading the natural slope of the ridge. Ends of sills were 

 halved to match in a tight rabbet joint. (Photo by Dr. Woods.) 



harm, particularly if the birds have liberal range. Windows in 

 monitor top remain closed in winter and are kept open in summer. 

 Woods' Improved Open-Air House, as illustrated in this chapter, 

 Tig. 1 to Fig. 12 inclusive, was built by the author for the purpose 

 of illustrating this book. I could not get a carpenter to build it the 

 way I wanted it built or to wait during construction for time for 



