Show straw loft gives good ventilation in houses I 1 A k cheap and very satisfactory cold weather ventilation for poultry house seems to be the straw loft A left covered with woven wire fencing jor or even with light poles put ne six and one half or seven feet above the floor and Is c covered with twel veito fifteen inches of loose straw the moist air works up through the straw and out through gratings or baff baffles ieslin in the ends just below the roof fresh air Is admitted by opening the south windows a little at the ahe top this method hasl given ecelle excellent nt results in experimental work at several agricultural colleges college s land and Is used quite extensively ten by many commercial poultry men the point in favor of the ahe straw loft seems to be that it lets out the moisture fast enough to keep the house dry and at the sa same me time retains much of the animal heat |