FOR ALL CLIMATES 



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Better fertility and better chicks from the eggs. 



Better returns for the food and care given the flock. 



Economical to build, easy to use and in every way practical and 

 satisfactory. 



The Woods' improved open-front poultry house difl^ers con- 

 siderably from the plans first published and is a much larger 

 house. In essentials it is similar to the first semi-monitor-top open- 

 air house. Features that experience has proved to be non-essentials 

 have been eliminated. The plans here given are for a colony house 

 for a large flock on a practical plant. By keeping the proportions 

 similar the house can be built as a smaller colony building or as 

 a continuous house. It has been successfully used as a long house 



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SCALE 



Fig. 14. — Dr. P. T. Woods ' improved open-front poultry house. East 

 elevation plan of timbers showing posts, sills, plates and rafters. Black 

 squares are plates. W is window. D is door. Use scale on this plan 

 for Fig. 15 also. 



20x400 feet, with pens 20x20 feet; as a small colony house 8x12 

 feet, 8x14 feet and 10x16 feet. The depth of modifications of 

 this house plan should not be made less than 13 feet for best 

 results. 



The large colony house, for which plans are presented herewith, 

 is 20 feet wide by 20 feet deep, 41/0 feet high in front of low front 

 section and 6 feet high at rear of same ; this front section is 8 feet 

 deep; rear section is 12 feet deep and 9 feet high in front and 

 51/2 feet high in rear. This gives a building with plenty of head 



