Show Open Front Plan Good for Airing Hen Houses The best method of ot poultry houge house ventilation Is the one that will secure good ventilation without cold drafts upon the fowls particularly particularly par par- at nt night says a correspondent correspond correspond- 1 ent of the Rural Hural New New Yorker Yorker There are many plans for accomplishing this few of which can be considered Ideal The open front plan is Undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- the most commonly used and this consists In having all walls of the poultry building airtight with the exception of the thc front ones and the front Is usually that facing the south or southeast If It cross openings are afforded It will be difficult to prevent cross drafts whereas If but one side of the building has outside openings s winds s cannot blow through The Idea is Illustrated by an attempt to blow Into a bottle It Is true that thata a long building with open front windows may suffer suITer some drafts by permitting the air to enter at nt one end and sweep through it to the other This may be c prevented by bythe bythe the use of partitions extending from the rear wall nearly to the front of the room A common mistake made b by those using an nn open front is to close It up in unusually cold weather er this stopping the Interchange of ot air and bringing about dampness of ot the Interior |