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largest dividends. We advocate plenty of room for range and 

 house. As it gets colder put more birds to a room, so that their 

 own heat will keep their combs from freezing. A cloth curtain 

 over window, w^hen thermometer is at zero, is a great help to pre- 

 vent frozen combs. In a long poultry house, as the weather gets 

 colder, a wagon sheet used as a partition to cause fowls to roost 

 closer together is just the thing, keeping in their heat and letting 

 them have plenty of ventilation. During the day open glass win- 

 dows, leaving only the cloth curtains before the openings." — John 

 R. Garber. 



"I think the cheapest and best house for Southwest Missouri 

 is a concrete building 8 feet high, 12 feet wide and long enough 

 to accommodate the size flock one may care to keep. Make floor 

 of concrete."— Mrs. J. M. Butts. 



"The hennery of State Hospital No. 3 was put in operation 

 January 21, 1908. During the eight months ending October 1, it 

 produced for the use of the institution 2,716 pounds of poultry 

 and 5,201 dozen eggs. In this aggregate the eggs used in the in- 

 cubators are not counted. The poultry man's report for this period 

 shows an expenditure, including his own wages at $50 per month, 

 of $643.37. The total value of the product at market prices was 

 a little more than $1,200. The food supplied the hens was largely 

 table scraps. The appropriation made by the last General As- 

 sembly for the establishment of this hennery was $2,500. Nine 

 cement houses were built for the hens at a cost of about $85 each. 

 These houses are double, each room being 14x18, making the entire 

 structure 14x36 feet. Each single room carries from 50 to 60 

 hens, and has a yard of one-half acre. The south side of the 

 house is about one-half windows and doors, and canvas is used in 

 the openings instead of glass. An incubator house made much 

 like the other cement buildings furnishes room for the five in- 

 cubators and the indoor brooders. The poultryman has a neat 

 little cottage immediately adjacent to the yards and lives with the 

 chickens. The hens number about 1,000. Health among them 

 has been exceptionally good, and they have testified their appre- 

 ciation of kind attention by liberal laying." — A. Cummins, 

 Steward. 



"Our plant is located upon 50 acres of ground, at the present 

 time, about fifteen acres of which is devoted entirely to the rais- 

 ing of poultry. A peach and apple orchard of about two acres is 

 divided into ten large yards or run-ways, in which the breeding 

 stock is kept. This provides the fowl with ample range and shade, 



