Show I I II POULTRY 1 INSURE PROFITS FROM 1 HEN FLOCK Protection From the Wintry Blasts Quite Important Insuring the poultry Hock flock agaInst blasts will vIll III Insure the profits to be received ed from from the birds this Inter Incomes from farm flocks depend upon poultry housing conditions A good flock Hock poorly housed Is almost certain to be less profitable than a poor flock sheltered In an building warns urns G T Klein extension Kansas State agricultural o college The modem modern poultry house bouse has fa duties for the hens to scratch feed roost lay In lav and exercise In the same room according to the tho poultry ape One large well ventilated well ell lighted clean sanitary room has the separate roosting quarters quarters tern scratching shed shell and In lay lavinghouse Ing house An up to date house Is so corn com complete that liens hens are confined In them In September an and are not given range until the I Klein I says that the most satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory house Is one 20 feet In depth It should have about one-fourth one of the I south side Ide open and be tight on the theother theother theother other three sides shIes except for windows s sin in the east and vest rest est ends and under the droppings boar board on the north A 10 Inch layer of straw as ns a ceiling gl es protection to the birds by mod modi fling the temperature In both winter and summer Such a n ceiling keeps the theair theair theair air In the building free from damp dampness ne ness 3 s prevents pi pl events accumulation of frost trost and keeps the litter Utter dry |