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The combination roof is desirable for portable houses that 

 are hauled up and down orchard rows, as it will not catch the 

 tree limbs so badly as a shed roof (Fig. 164). It gives good 

 height to the windows where the short slope is toward the 

 front, and gives good protection for houses with the open 

 front running clear to the ground where the long slope is 

 toward the front. 



The gable roof has the same advantage on a portable 

 house used among trees that a combination roof has. For 

 a permanent house it is well adapted for having windows on 

 all sides, and for the straw-loft method of ventilation, as 

 shown in Fig. 166. 



The half monitor roof, as shown in Fig. 148, allows a low 

 open front, and at the same time admits the sunlight from 

 above to the back of the pen, where the roosting quarters are. 



Fig. 165 



A cheap and serviceable house for capons and cockerels that are to be 

 marketed before extreme weather sets in. (Courtesy of Kansas Experiment 

 Station.) 



Two-Story Houses. — A rather infrequent style of house, used 

 with marked success in a few cases, biit not fitting in with 

 ordinary general farm conditions very well, is the two-story 

 house. It has some advantage in the cost of construction 



