CHAPTER VI. 



Another Plan for Dr. Woods' House 



HE AETICLE and jjlans in this chapter are from 

 tlie June, 1911, American Poultry Journal. This 

 is the same house as described and illustrated in 

 Chapter V except that it is planned and framed 

 for horizontal boarding and the use of cheap build- 

 ing material to be covered with either roofing fabric 

 or shingles. U. R. Fishel gave this house his endorsement in his 

 catalogue for 1911 and published the plans and article in it. Here 

 they are : 



In the few years that it has been before the public the Woods' 

 Open-Front Poultry House has made many friends. It has been 

 successfully used in bleak and cold sections of Canada and onr 

 own northern states and has given equally good results in the 

 warmer climate south of Mason and IDixon's line. It has been 

 built in many sizes, both as a colony house and as a long or 

 "continuous" poultry building. We do not claim that it is better 

 than the several other good types of "fresh-air" houses. It is a 

 good, practical poultry house and one that is adaptable to a wide 

 range of locations and climatic conditions. 



Open-front poultry houses have won their popularity on sound, 

 practical merit and have come to stay. Poultry keepers who have 

 once used a good open-front or "fresh-air" house and given it a 

 fair trial, would not return to the old-fashioned closed building 

 for their flocks. Even the large combed Minorcas and Leghorns 

 have been found to do better in an open-front house than in a 

 closed one. The size or style of the house does not matter bo 

 much provided the front is kept always open and the pens are 

 deep enough to have the roosts well back from the opening. 

 Some of the advantages claimed for the open-front house are: 

 The front being always open there is no ventilation to worry 

 about. 



Pure fresh breathing air for the fowls both day and night. 

 Freedom from frost and dampness. Not an uncomfortable cold 

 house, because air is dry and pure. 



None of the penetrating chill common to closed houses in cold 

 weather. 



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