Poultry house construction . /VP 2X3*/7 // 3/33 * (fiber* /£ Tot?/ . 32/&63<?0/<?0 Fig. 4.—Cross section and end elevation of colony house used at Government PoultryFarm, Beltsville, Md. Capacity, 25 hens. POULTRY HOUSE CONSTRUCTION. 9 amount of lumber, but increases the roof surface, which is the mostexpensive part of the house. A large amount of glass in the front of the house makes it warmduring the day and cold at night, as glass radiates heat very muslin, or a light weight of duck cloth, is used for cur-tains in the fronts of poultry houses. This cloth should be t
Poultry house construction . /VP 2X3*/7 // 3/33 * (fiber* /£ Tot?/ . 32/&63<?0/<?0 Fig. 4.—Cross section and end elevation of colony house used at Government PoultryFarm, Beltsville, Md. Capacity, 25 hens. POULTRY HOUSE CONSTRUCTION. 9 amount of lumber, but increases the roof surface, which is the mostexpensive part of the house. A large amount of glass in the front of the house makes it warmduring the day and cold at night, as glass radiates heat very muslin, or a light weight of duck cloth, is used for cur-tains in the fronts of poultry houses. This cloth should be thinenough to allow a slow circulation of air without a draft, which objectis defeated by using too heavy a grade of duck or by oiling or paint-. Fig. 5.—Types of roofs for poultry houses. A, shed ; B, combination ; O, gable ; D, mon-itor ; E, semimonitor ; F, A-shaped. ing the cloth. The front of the house should be high enough so thatthe windows or openings will allow the sun to shine well back intothe house during the winter. The depth which the suns rays shineonto the floor of the house in the vicinity of Washington, D. C,(latitude 40° N.), on January 1, is given in the accompanying table. Top ofwindows. Depth ofsun. Top ofwindows. Depth ofsun. Ft. in. Ft. Ft. in. Ft. 3 6 8 6 2 14 4 5 10 7 1 16 5 4 12 7 11 18 19213°—18—Bull. 574-
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