Gasoline-Heated Brooder-House. 



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Up to 1903. the Menges heaters only had been used. While they 

 were eminently satisfactory for heating with kerosene, they were not 

 large enough, durable enough, nor safe enough for gasoline heating, 

 especially where chickens were to be kept in large flocks in colony houses. 



When the junior partner of the firm of White & Rice became con- 

 nected with the Poultry Department at Cornell University in 1903, he 

 began immediately to try to make a heater that would meet the needs of 

 gasoline heating. Several heaters were invented and various types of 

 houses were used. Progress was made particularly in the matter of 

 making a fire-proof heater by providing a galvanized burner box with a 

 device for removing gasoline that might flow if the burner becomes ex- 

 tinguished, the use of a five gallon instead of a one gallon supply tank, 

 and the placing of the tank inside instead of outside the house. 



At about this point in the development of the system of heating 

 brooder houses with gasoline (1905), the junior writer of this bulletin 

 joined in the efifort, and contributed improvements in the house and 

 hover and a greatly improved type of heater which provided a better 

 system of furnishing a regidar supply of pure air ; a heater that would 

 supply a larger quantity of heat for the amount of gasoline consumed 

 and one that can be more easily placed and removed from the house. 

 (Plate I and Fig. 62.) 



Dr. E. M. Santee of Cortland, N. Y., at that time a special student 

 in Cornell University, suggested the idea of making the tank longer and 

 suspending it horizontally as it is now used, so that it could be filled 

 from the end, instead of placing the tank vertically to be filled through 

 the roof, as it 

 was then done. 



Mr. C. L. 

 Opperman o f 

 College Park, 

 Md., then a 

 special student 

 in Cornell Uni- 

 versity, suggest- 

 ed the can for 

 quick filling. 

 (Plate I and 



Fig- 74-) 



Floyd Q. 

 White of York- 

 town, N. Y., 

 formerly a stu- 

 dent at Cornell, Fig. 64. — Putting up the frame. 



