BUILDINGS 



Illustration No. 1. 



Various locations may require different kinds of buildings, and condi- 

 tions of climate should be properly considered. It is impossible for us to 

 state which exact variety of house is the best for you, without knowing just 

 how you are located and all the points which enter into the subject. A house 

 should be selected with due regard to its natural conditions, and all that we 

 can do is to give you valuable ideas about the housing of fowls, and the 

 various kinds of buildings, and let you select to suit your needs. 



The poultry house does not need to be in any way fancy, either in fit- 

 tings or design, but there are a few certain rules which cannot be over- 

 looked if you are to expect success. 



VENTILATION — The fowl uses up more oxygen from the air than 



any other breathing creature according to size. It has not sweat glands, 



never sweats, and gives off all moisture by the breath. 



Now let us see if we cannot meet the requirements of nature in a house 



for our fowls. They must have plenty of pure, fresh air in order for them 



to obtain their natural, and neces- 

 sary amount of oxygen. We can 

 understand that moisture coming 

 from the breath, directly into the 

 cooler air, without having a chance 

 to slowly evaporate as it would in 

 coming through a coat of hair or 

 feathers, will condense very quickly. 

 This is why it is so necessary to have 

 perfect ventilation to carry off this 



moisture or the house will become damp and, in cold weather, a hoar frost 



will form on the inside walls. 



DAMPNESS must be avoided to keep the fowls healthy. The 



warmer the air in a house the more moisture it will hold and, when this 



comes in contact with a cooler surface it condenses in the form of hoar 



frost in winter, and makes the air soggy and damp in summer, and it is 



common to say that the house sweats. The remedies for these conditions 



are, first be sure that you have a dry floor, and the second is diffusive 



ventilation to dry out the moisture in the air as fast as it appears. 



DRAINAGE — If circumstances compel you to build on ground that is 



not naturally dry, you should make it so by building up your ground as 



shown in illustration No. 1. Carry Al^ 



your foundation walls up to a height Sjf% 



of eighteen inches, or more, if neces- "^''i 



sary, above the level of the ground, ^^«!^ 



and fill in a foot of this with small ' 



stones, coarse gravel and cinders, 



and the remaining six inches with 



sand or dry, sandy loam. Then slope 



up on the outside to the bottom of 



the sills, as shown in illustration, 



and you will turn away the surface 



water and keep your floor dry if 



tlie ground is not entirely too wet 



about it. 



SUNLIGHT— The next import- 

 ant thing to consider is sunlight. It not only makes the house cheerful, 



but it provides a rutural sanitation which tends to prevent disease, aids 



Illustration No. 2. 



