Faem Poultry 1833 



requires the tight partitions and a depth of not less than sixteen 

 feet, preferably twenty, with the perches in the extreme back 

 of the pen. This also enables ns to solve another problem — that 

 of labor — since the larger nnit, at present cost of labor, is more 

 profitable than the smaller one, and it may successfully be kept in 

 the open-front house while it could not be thus kept in the old- 

 style warm house. The first impression to one who has never tried 

 the fresh-air house is that wattles and combs would be frozen the 

 first night. The fact is, that even leghorn combs withstand 

 the severest weather in this type of house if they have become 

 used to the cold by being kept in the open front house from early 

 in the fall. A hen cannot do her best without sunlight and 

 plenty of it ; therefore, if the open front house is not used, a large 

 window should be provided in the east corner of the south side of 

 the house. It is important that the floor of the poultry house be 

 smooth, tight, warm and vermin proof. ]S[o other material meets 

 all of these requirements like concrete, but it is important that 

 the concrete floor in the poultry house be insulated to keep down 

 the moisture and consequently the cold. The best and most econ- 

 omical method of building a poultry house floor is to first smooth 

 ofl" the ground and then lay on a coat about one inch thick of 

 concrete, made by mixing gravel, sand and cement, about five of 

 gravel to three of sand and one of cement, making it rather wet, 

 smoothing off with a hoe or a float and then rolling on single ply 

 tar felt roofing, then covering this with about two inches in thick- 

 ness of the same concrete material having the gravel not too 

 coarse, mixed verv wet and smoothed off with a float. 



FEEDING 



For many years on my own farm at Cortland we have followed 

 the plan adopted by Professor Rice at Cornell and have found 

 it so satisfactory that it has been adopted here at Good Will High 

 School, and is here given as the best with which I am familiar. 



Cornell Ration for Chick Feeding 



THE ration 

 Mixture No. 1 Mixture No. 2 



Rolled oats 8 lbs. Wheat (cracked) 3 lbs. 



Bread crumbs or cracker Cracked corn (fine) 2 lbs. 



waste 8 lbs. Pinhcad oatmeal 1 lb. 



Sifted beef scrap (best grade) 2 lbs. 



Bone meal 1 lb. 



