. A poultry survey of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois. Figure 8. The house which served to accommodate sixtybirds more than it had adequate space for. Note the sickly andlistless condition of the flock. Figure 9. The illustration depicts an oldbarn, a very common form of poultry house in theTwin Cities. 28. A question that brought to light a great deal of ignoranceprevailing among back yard poultry keepers was the one in which itwas asked What direction does your poultry house face? Out of on©hundred houses, only twenty-one faced the South, and of the owners
. A poultry survey of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois. Figure 8. The house which served to accommodate sixtybirds more than it had adequate space for. Note the sickly andlistless condition of the flock. Figure 9. The illustration depicts an oldbarn, a very common form of poultry house in theTwin Cities. 28. A question that brought to light a great deal of ignoranceprevailing among back yard poultry keepers was the one in which itwas asked What direction does your poultry house face? Out of on©hundred houses, only twenty-one faced the South, and of the ownersof these only seven were able to give intelligent reasons why thepoultry house faced in the right direction. Many owners were sur-prised to learn that in poultry raising it was essential that thehouse should face the South. In most cases the poultry house facedin the same direction as the dwelling house. In fairness to someowners, however, it must be said that in some instances it wouldhave been exceedingly inconvenient and perhaps impracticable tohave had the poultry house face in a direction other than that inwhich the dwelling house faced. The majority of breeders made no provisions for proper cases where barns served
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