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immediately with no treatment but a single application of 

 vaseline to the head. The egg yield was fair, comparing 

 favorably with average good reports. The hens in this 



I published a report of experi- 



house were Light Brahmas 



House in which Light Brahma Pitllets were kept. 



ence with this house, and on the strength of my experience 

 with it ])ogan to urge correspondents who had much trouble 

 with damp houses or unhealthy fowls to open up their houses, 

 and keep them open at all seasons. 



The next year I continued to use this house the same Avay, 

 })ut put in a part of it a pen of Silver Dorkings, a breed 

 reputed to be rather delicate and susceptible- to cold, and 

 having combs which would be more quickly affected l)y 

 the frost. I also built another smaller house, on the same 

 principle, and put in it a brood of late-hatched Brahma 

 chickens. The Dorking male had his comb very badly frozen, 

 ])ut the hens' combs were scarcely nii)i)ed at all. They were 

 put into the house December 1 , began to lay in about three 

 weeks, and laid well all Avinter. 



The brood of chickens hatched June 27 that I put in the 

 small house in October made a remarkable record for growth 

 and early maturity. I got the first vgg January 15, and by 

 February 1 all the pullets, nine in number, were laying 



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