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OPEN-AIR POULTRY HOUSES 



Fig. 11 shows south front and west side finished and ready for 

 painting. It will be noted that the windows are bolted on to outside 

 of building, eight tire bolts with steel washers are used for each 

 window, nuts are inside of house. One-quarter-inch mesh wire 

 netting covers the open front for a space of 3 feet high by width of 

 house. This space is always open. There is no partition of any 

 kind between the front and rear sections of house and no curtains of 

 any kind are used. 



Fig. 12 shows south front and east side of completed building, 



DR. P. T. WOODS' IMPROVED OPEN-AIR POULTRY HOXTSE. 

 Fig. 7. — View of west side of frame when ready to board in. (Photo by 



Dr. Woods.) 



ready for painting. The door was painted to make it show up 

 well and to prevent warping. Door has two 10-inch corrugated 

 "T" hinges and a hinged hasp, staple and a padlock. 



No droppings boards were used in this building. Floor was filled 

 in with sand to level of bottom of sills. Eoosts were placed rear of the 

 house 3 feet above the top of sills, four on each side of the three- 

 quarters middle partition of rear of house. Nests made of cover- 

 ing board stock were hung on walls of house in front of roosts. 

 These were made 14x14x13, with sloping roof and an alighting 



