Chapter III 

 THE KIND OF HOUSE TO BUILD 



WHAT a satisfactory thing it would be if 

 one could draw a plan and say, "That 

 is the best kind of poultry house for the 

 amateur to build." But what a riotous time the man 

 who should attempt that sort of thing would have ! 

 Poultry experts differ no less radically than doc- 

 tors, and probably more time has been devoted to 

 planning poultry houses than to designing churches. 

 Of .course the writer has his personal pet theory 

 about poultry house construction, but he is not 

 parading it, for it may change in the future as it 

 has in the past. Few poultry keepers indeed would 

 construct to-day the kind of house they would have 

 built ten years ago. A distinct advance was made 

 when the discovery was announced and proved to 

 be true that poultry would thrive better in cold but 

 dry houses in which there was an abundance of fresh 

 air at all times than in very warm houses in which 

 the ventilation was poor with the result that moisture 



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