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Show COLONY HOUSE FOR POULTRY Fowls Are More Active and There Is Less Danger From Disease by That System. The main requirements of a good poultry house are good ventilation And protection rt vim htorms and cold winds. li.ns will not lay when weather conditions prevent litem from scratch- E5r$ lalp i: Colony House With Cloth Windows. In and exercise. Many poultry houses have proven failures because the variations In night and day temperature tem-perature were too great. Prominent Ai.thorltlea on tho building of poultry houses state that ventilation can best bo furnished by leaving one end of the house open or covered with burtap or canv.'iH. using no glass windows unless un-less necessary for light. The Idea of building a warm house should be abandoned, it U shelter that Is needed. need-ed. The hoiiNo should be built In euch a way that the fowls will not roost near the open front where they would be expoaed to wlnda; nor should It face the prevailing winds. A long house Is more expensive to bnlld. for k given capacity, than one more nearly near-ly square. A long, narrow bouao Is il.so a cold bouse, having more ex-poned ex-poned surface for a given capacity than a square house. The slzo of bouse necessary for A rertnln flock -will vary In different lections. Where there la little or no mow aud where the fowls can be out-loors out-loors every day In the year, two iquare feet of floor space per fowl sill be ample. Where the climate a such that the fowls will seek ebel-;er ebel-;er part of the year, rather than go mtdoora on the range, considerably uoro space should be provided, say our or five square feet per fowl. The dea should not be to crowd them to much that their activity will be Id , ;trferd with. Whether the shelter , s pruvlded by enlarging the house or j providing cheap scratching sheds, la immaterial. Two square feet per fowl, ar even less, la ample for roosting luartcra. , , -ar, Booata should be made low or near , tho ground not higher than two feet I h. ro are several reasons for this. rWU of the heavier breed cannot fly ilgh, and those of the lighter brttds 'requently Injure the soiea of their i cct In Jumping from high perches. 'tot sts should be mado all the same lelghts; for tf they are made some i ilghcr than others, the birds will an lock to the highest ones and crowd, i ahlch Is undesirable. , When drooping boards are used they ihould he low down, to permit of easy leaning. They should be made of Hatched lumber i :.d be 20 Inches ide for one perch and three feet i ldo for two perches, the first perch i )laccd at least ten Inches from the ( vail. A good roost may bo made rom material two by two Inches, then illghtly rounded on the edges. Poultry keeping Is most successful here the colony system prevails. The olony system means the housing of c owls In small bouses, preferably por- t able, where the fowls have free range, f Pbe chief advantage la that the fowls i ire more active or busier than when 'onflned In yards; second, there Is less langer from outbreaks of disease, as i t Is possible to keep the houses on iean ground by moving them occa- t lonally; and third, the fowls require t ess feed t g And rare, ss they pick ip considerable food on lh range. knottier advantage of this system Is ( hat the fowls will rid the farm ot t s Showing Trsp Nests. isny Injurious Insects, such as grsss ' oners. Ih'n, the colony system (ill f,t In with crop rotations, and for r art of the year the fowls will live 8 n the stubble fields. e The Illustrations shown represent urctssful rolony bouse used at the " 'tah experiment station. The bouse as a cloth window, and the traps are try convenient, aa they open from I lie outnlde. j |