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Show Experts Say Bam Windows Practicable Sun Reduces Disease And Bam Moisture Farm experts are urging farmers farm-ers to make practical use of sunshine sun-shine to solve some of their problems prob-lems of moisture, sanitation and daylighting inside farm buildings by installing large windows. Farm building windows- in the past have been too small, have frosted over during cold weather so that sufficient sun energy could not get into the building to provide warmth. Also, little attention has Lambs like these above, as well as other farm animals, are attracted to sunshine In a barn on a cold day. Large double-pane double-pane windows for better day-lighting day-lighting and moisture control in farm structures are becoming more popular. been given to the germicidal effect of direct sunlight in the poultry house, dairy barn or farrowing pen. Proper ventilation and sunlight not only helps to dry up moisture, but direct sunlight helps kill bacteria bac-teria wherever they gain access to farm buildings. As an example of the sun's heating heat-ing power, in a central farrowing house in Iowa using insulated windows win-dows in the south wall, the inside temperature never dropped below freezing although the outside temperature tem-perature hit 25 to 30 degrees below zero. |