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HOUSING 



Materials for Building a Poultry House. — Wood and tile 

 are both used in poultry house construction, but wood by 



Fig. 113. — A poultry house built of hollow tile and stucco. Tliis material costs just 

 about one-half more than the same house would have cost built of wood. 



far more frequently. It is the cheapest and best material. 

 Tiles cost about one-half more than wood, but do not equal 



Fia. 114. — A colony laying house with a capacity for forty laying hens. 



it in efficiency (Fig. 113). Sometimes concrete and brick 

 are used, but are generally unsatisfactory, and such construe- 



