American poultry world . scratching pur-poses. There is a small window on the opposite end from thedoor. While this house is unique in construction it is interestingto note that it has droppings platform and separate quartersfor roosting and scratching. These features conform to so-called modern ideas of poultry house construction. The houseis also extreme as far as ventilation is concerned. Certainlythere is free circulation of air over the roosts, which is anadvantage in summer. As a winter house, these quarters comeas near imitating natural conditions as could be imagined, butfrom the stand
American poultry world . scratching pur-poses. There is a small window on the opposite end from thedoor. While this house is unique in construction it is interestingto note that it has droppings platform and separate quartersfor roosting and scratching. These features conform to so-called modern ideas of poultry house construction. The houseis also extreme as far as ventilation is concerned. Certainlythere is free circulation of air over the roosts, which is anadvantage in summer. As a winter house, these quarters comeas near imitating natural conditions as could be imagined, butfrom the standpoint of a house for winter layers its efficiencyis questioned. EDITORS NOTE—We know from personal experience thatmany breeders have worked out plans for poultry houses thatare inexpensive and at the same time thoroughly efficient andpractical. We will esteem it a favor if some of these men andwomen will mail us photographs or drawings of their houses,with description of same, for publication in American WHILE visiting the poultry department of the Universityof Missouri last summer, our attention was called toa poultry house of peculiar design, locally known as athief-proof poultry house. While it is not probable thatmany of our readers will want to build a house of this type,it is so out of the usual line that we asked Professor Kempsterto secure a photo of the house which he kindly sent to us withthe following brief description: One of the most curious types of poultry house construc-tion is the thief-proof poultry house, occasionally found inMissouri and other places in the south. This house is uniquein that there is no connection between the scratching quartersand the roosting compartment, it being necessary for the birds
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