. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . >oo H Wo«n p «o o o M o n mtnPoHK w WQ w o &o «! CM I [186] OTHER BUILDINGS 187 lation at all times. In the front of each pen is a door 2 in. wide, the remaining space being taken up by a largewindow; the sash, divided in the center, is arranged to openin half or entire. By this means the chicken house may ber
. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . >oo H Wo«n p «o o o M o n mtnPoHK w WQ w o &o «! CM I [186] OTHER BUILDINGS 187 lation at all times. In the front of each pen is a door 2 in. wide, the remaining space being taken up by a largewindow; the sash, divided in the center, is arranged to openin half or entire. By this means the chicken house may bereadily converted into the Open Front type—from all ac-counts a very good one. By closing all the windows and doors,it may be made at once into the tightest kind of a TightFront type—from all accounts a very bad one but still de-. FIG. 65—ELEVATION OF PEN IN PASSAGEWAY sired by some. The north wall is well ventilated by good-sized windows, which should be left open throughout the sum-mer, though they seldom are. The usual manner of arrang-ing the roosts and nests is shown in Figs. 65 and 66, thenests and the dropping-boards being accessible from thepassageway. Plate facing p. 188 shows a photograph of theinterior. 188 MODERN FARM BUILDINGS For the small plant the commercial outdoor brooder is thebest. For the larger scheme the brooder building is a satis-factory structure, and the plan shown in Fig. 64 illustrates theusual type. The important thing in the brooder house is toseparate completely the cellar for the incubators from thecellar in which is placed the boiler. It is impossible to pre-vent the coal gas escaping from the boiler and the fumes of
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