. Beginnings in animal husbandry. Livestock; Poultry. POULTRY HOUSES 383 supported. A combination roof has a double pitch, having a short pitch in front and a long one behind. This type of roof is well suited to buildings wider than 14 feet, and gives a strong construction. A two-pitch or gable-roof house usually has rafters of the same length, coming to a ridge in the center. This gives a high center to the pen, hence a loss of heat, so that in winter the house is hkely to be cold. A ceiling is sometimes built in such a house, and attic storage room thus provided. What is called the monitor r
. Beginnings in animal husbandry. Livestock; Poultry. POULTRY HOUSES 383 supported. A combination roof has a double pitch, having a short pitch in front and a long one behind. This type of roof is well suited to buildings wider than 14 feet, and gives a strong construction. A two-pitch or gable-roof house usually has rafters of the same length, coming to a ridge in the center. This gives a high center to the pen, hence a loss of heat, so that in winter the house is hkely to be cold. A ceiling is sometimes built in such a house, and attic storage room thus provided. What is called the monitor roof, has. Fig. 215. A continuous poultry house with rai=!ed alley, the Poultry Herald. Photograph by courtesy what resembles a continuous cupola along its whole length, with adjustable windows in the south side, by which sun- light may reach the rear inside. A semi-monitor roof has one long sweep of rafter for perhaps two-thirds the width of the house. Below the high point of rafter a vertical wall is dropped sufficiently to allow a line of windows. From the bottom of the window sill, a shorter length of rafter gives the necessary front pitch to the roof. Thererare also houses with the fronts slanting to the ground, and others of wood that. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Plumb, Charles Sumner, 1860-1939. St. Paul, Minn. : Webb Pub. Co.
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