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This is an excellent house for the boys and girls poultry 

 clubs. 



New Jersey Experiment Station in summarizing their 

 experiments in housing fowls conclude that a large amount of 

 glass in a poultry house is undesirable, that the shed roof fur- 

 nishes ideal conditions at a minimum cost, and that the twenty- 



Fig. 78. — A diagram of a double unit system house, with two yards to 

 each house. As indicated one pen is sown in oats, which aids in rendering 

 the ground free from contamination, while the other yard is used for pas- 

 ture. The oats should be pastured when it is from 2 to 4 inches high. 



foot house is more efficient for medium to large flocks than the 

 smaller houses because it can be constructed more economi- 

 cally. The birds are farther from the openings and hence 

 better protected. 



In yarding fowls it is estimated that to maintain a perma- 



