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POULTRY CULTURE 



Poultry houses on hillsides. While a slight slope is an advantage in a site for 

 a poultry house, too much slope is troublesome. Fig. 244 shows a poultry house 

 on a steep slope, with a high front wall and the area on which the building 



Fig. 244. House on side 

 hill ; yards in front 



Fig. 245. House on side 

 hill ; yards in rear 



Fig. 246. Two-story house 

 on side hill 



stands filled in. The walk in this house is inside, at the rear. Fig. 245 shows 

 a similar plan of leveling the floor, but with raised walk outside in front. 

 Fig. 246 shows how an experienced poultryman planned his hillside house to 

 make a two-story poultry house and give the fowls on both floors direct access 

 to the ground outside. 



