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of animals— from five eighths to the whole— is consumed in the maintenance of the 

 animal heat, it is evident that whatever arrangements we may make for pre- 

 venting the radiation of the heat of our fowls into the surrounding atmosphere, 

 so far as these arrangements are compatible with health, will effect a positive 



Fig. 15. — Leaijrto PouMi-y Mouie. 



saving in the quantity of food consumed, saying nothing of the comfort we our- 

 selves will take in the tho^ight that the dumb animals dependent upon us are 

 not being mercilessly exposed to the cutting blasts of the wintry nights. 





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Fia. 17. 



The essential points of a fowl-house are ; exclusion of all currents of air,' venti- 

 lation, light and cleanliness. It should be situated on the south side of other 

 buildings, if possible, and should have, at any rate, a southern exposure, with a 

 liberal supply of glass in its southern walls. Attached to it should be a yard 

 where the fowls may exercise in pleasant weather, and if this yard contain the 



