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the incubator and placed in the brooder, as the slightest chill at 

 this time will cause certain death in a few days. There are other 

 brooder houses and coops on the farm for the use of the chicks, 

 as the weather gets warmer. Another building, and probably the 

 most interesting, is known as the cockerel house. This house is 

 sixty feet long, with a hallway through the center and with run- 

 ways leading off on each side, having a total of thirty different 

 runways. On the side of each runway about three feet from the 



COCKEREL HOUSE ON A MISSOURI POULTRY FARM. 



ground is located a coop with two partitions. In this way ninety 

 male birds can be kept separately, in condition for exhibition pur- 

 poses, and kept in good feather, health, style and spirit, as the male 

 birds, when permitted to run in flocks, fight each other, injuring 

 combs and plumage, often retarding growth and appearance of 

 the more timid ones. This house is considered the most valuable 

 and important one on the place." — W. W. Henderson. 



