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door. There are two bedrooms for the 

 children, or for guests, as the case may be, 

 with a hall between them. In this hall 

 back of the chimney is an extra toilet for 

 the upper floor. It is lighted by a sky- 

 light. From the rear room there is an 

 entrance to a small sleeping-porch. There 

 are plenty of closets and storage rooms. 

 The furnace, though small, provides ample 

 heat. It has a thermostat and a thermome- 

 ter to regulate and register the heat. 

 Different contractors have figured the 



were hinged together, and a burlap blanket 

 was stretched across the entire ring and 

 stitched to it. Over the entire lower surface 

 of this burlap, strips of felt or canton flannel 

 were stitched 2 in. apart, each strip being 

 cut into 2-in. sections 3 in. long and hung 

 from the burlap. 



These hovers are 5 ft. in diameter — large 

 enough to cover 225 or 250 chicks — the 

 usual' results from a 300-egg incubator. 

 They are set in the laying pens which will 

 house the pullets when raised. Two small 



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Floor plans of a very unique five-room 

 bungalow built for comfort and convenience 



cost of this house where the specifications 

 called for a double constructed, windproof, 

 full cement basement, all built-in con- 

 veniences, electric lights, gas, water, 

 furnace, and first-class workmanship, to 

 be from $1,200 to $1,400. 



A Chicken Brooder That Does Not 

 Require Heat 



A POULTRY farmer of Utah, who every 

 spring raises several thousand chickens 

 to keep up a large flock of hens, has dis- 

 carded a rather expensive brooder house 

 with fine heating equipment and now uses 

 a very simple cold brooder. The saving of 

 labor in controlling the chicks, the elimina- 

 tion of the care of lamps, thermostats and 

 regulators, and the fine efficiency of these 

 hovers attracted much attention from 

 poultry farmers in the vicinity. 



Two halves of a ring of ^-in. iron were 

 made by the local blacksmith. The halves 



stakes are driven into the ground, to receive 

 the bolts which hold the halves of the ring 

 together. The bolts also serve to hold 

 the ring securely in position. Two other 

 stakes catch the outer edges of the ring 

 and support it at the right distance from the 

 ground — about 4 in. 



Each brooder is first inclosed with wire 

 netting having i-in. mesh, 20 ft. long and 

 I ft. "wjide. This is done for simplicity of 

 operation and ease in controlling the chicks 

 and herding them for the first few days. 

 When the chicks come from the incubators 

 the wire fence is drawn around the hover, 

 one-half of which is raised to permit the 

 chicks to enter. Straw is placed around 

 the outside edge of the hover in layers 

 thick enough to hold in the warmth with- 

 out cutting off the ventilation. 



