HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



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TOLMAN SUMMER SHELTER RIVALS 



NATURE IN GROWING VIGOROUS BIRDS 



Twelve Dollars will build a Portable Shelter Planned and Used 



for Fifteen Years that Can't be Beaten for Putting Snap in 



the Pullets and Saving Brooder Expenses 



1 piece — 2x3x15 ft. spruce for 6 posts. 

 1 piece — 1x6x14 ft. hemlock for end 



-1x6x17 ft. liemlock for side 



5 pieces — 1x3x12 ft. furring for lidge, 



ates, and ties. 



9 piece.s — 1x3x12 ft. furring for raf- 



1x3x14 ft. furring for end 



Poultrynien are always faced with the 

 problem of providing ample housing 

 rooms for pullets on range. An eight sills, 

 by twelve house looks large enough when 1 piee 

 chicks are a day old. Then after the sills, 

 broilers are sold, there seems to be ample 

 loom for a time. Then the brooder house ' plates, and ties 

 seems to be too small for the pullets. 



County Agent Baker of Plymouth I ters. 

 County recently published a housing plan ! 1 piece 

 which looked so good to us that we are ' ties. 



passing it on in hopes that it may help ' 1 piece — 1x3x16 ft. furring for door 

 this summer housing problem. This is frames, 

 what he has to say about it! | 4 pieces — 1x3x9 ft. furring for roost 



"Have you ever noticed as you took suppoits. 

 those maturing pullets down from the 4 pieces — 1x2x14 ft. furring for roosts. 

 old apple trees on the range to put them ' 2 pieces — 1x6x14 ft. matched spruce 

 in laying quarters how uniformly good for doors, 24x40. 

 they were? 4.5 ft. 2-ft. chicken wire, 1 inch me.sh. 



"Didn't they seem a little better than 48 lineal ft. 3-ply roofing papei-. 



those that had roosted where they be- 

 longed in the brooder hou.se? Plenty of 

 fresh air had given them the vigor we 

 all want to .see in our birds. 



"It was such observation that led 

 Joseph Tolman of Norwell fifteen years 



3 lbs. roofing cleats. 



"At current prices the cost not figur- 

 ing the labor of building would be about 

 twelve dollars. It will comfortably carry 

 to maturity seventy-five pullets. 



Commenting on this shelter, Mr. Tol- 



ago to construct a summer shelter for man said, About fifteen years ago I built 

 his pullets that would afford protection my first shelters of this type and still 

 from varmints and storms but still allow i find them to be what I want for growing 

 an abundance of fresh air. vigorous birds. Soon after the chickens 



"He built the shelters mainly with three are weaned from the heat of the brooder 

 inch spruce furring of the best quality, stove, I transfer them to these coops, that 

 only the six side posts being heavier, of is, about the first of May, when they 

 two by three spruce studding. This en- ; weigh from one and a half to two 



ables two men to easily carry the shelter. 

 The sides and ends are covered with one 

 inch mesh chick wire and the roof with 

 three ply roofing, secured to the rafters 

 by metal cleats. 



"The bill of materials for this seven 

 by eight and one-half feet Tolman sum- 

 mer shelter is as follows: 



pounds. In a favorable season the trans- 

 fer could be made earlier. 



I have held pullets in the shelter as late 

 as Thanksgiving with no harm done but 

 on the whole find that pullets will come 

 into laying about three weeks earlier 

 when housed in the shelter than when 

 hou.sed in a regular colony house." 



CARE OF FIELD IMPLEMENTS 



Have Vou Looked Over Your Haying 

 Tools ? 



I The life of implements is exceedingly 

 short and the average farmer does little 

 to lengthen it. In order that an invest- 

 j ment in a field implement may prove 

 ] profitable it is necessary first that the 

 i implement be suitable for the farm in 

 question, second that sufficient use will 

 be made of the implement to make the 

 investment sound and lastly that proper 

 care be given to the implement in order 

 that it may be available for use and that 

 it may last a reasonable length of time. 

 Field implements are used a compara- 

 tively few days each year and as a con- 

 sequence, we have two kinds of deprecia- 

 tion going on, that due to actual wear 

 in the field and that due to rust and decay 

 when the implement is idle. In many 

 cases the depreciation due to the latter 

 may be greater than that due to actual 

 use. Machines that are used will natu- 

 rally wear, but unnecessary wear and 

 breakage results primarily from three 

 causes: — failure to tighten bolts which 

 come loose, improper adjustment, and 

 lack of lubrication. If proper attention 

 is given to these details, depreciation can 

 oe kept to a minimum. E.xcessive de- 

 preciation when implements are not used 

 results primarily from rusting of iron 

 parts and decay and warping of wooden 

 parts. Proper housing will in itself cut 

 down this depreciation but the greasing 

 of iron surfaces which are not painted 

 and painting the implement as a whole, 

 out particularly the wooden parts, will 

 help. Periodic overhauling of imple- 

 ments is well worth while and should be 

 done during the slack season, not a day 

 or two before the implement is going in 

 the field. In this way the labor cost can 

 be reduced, ample time can be allowed 

 for securing needed repairs, and a better 

 job of overhauling can be done than if 

 it has to be done under piessure when 

 every day's delay means loss of time in 

 the field. Piof. C. L. Gunne.ss. 



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