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down on your knees in the mud to strike matches, cannot realize 

 what a contrast it is to rearing chickens in our gasoline-heated colony 

 houses, where you can go inside out of the wet and cold to do your 

 work, and where instead of filling a lamp every day and trimming 

 wicks each day you have a gasoline tank in the top of the house that 

 will hold fuel enough for one or two weeks. A wickless blue flame 

 burner that, if properly handled, will run with little or no attention 

 for weeks at a time. The heater can be made by any tinsmith, and 

 we have not had it patented. It has been given to the public. 



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A detailed drawing of an end view and a side view of a gasoline brooder house. 



Building Material. Any cheap lumber may be used, such as 

 white or yellow pine, or one may use cypress. The two sills consist 

 of two inches by twelve inches by eight feet. These sills are placed 

 one in front and one in the rear; the joists, eight feet long, are laid 

 two feet eight inches apart from center to center on the sills, and 

 connected by a half joint. It may be well to brace the corners of 

 the frame by using a two-inch by four-inch piece. The floor, consist- 

 ing of matched and planed one-inch by six-inch by eight feet pine 

 (white or yellow), should be nailed to the joist. Owing to the Mis- 

 souri climate, we need to construct a double floor and run the 

 boards parallel with the front. After the floor is laid, put up the 

 four studs; these are of two-inch by tw r o-inch by twenty-four-inch 

 material, placed flush with the outer .edge of the floor two feet eight 

 inches apart, and nailed to the floor. The plates are next laid on top 

 of the studs, being of eight-inch by two-inch by eight feet material; 

 on the plates toenail the four rafters; these to be of two-inch by two- 

 inch by six feet material. After the ntftn-s are placed, nail on the 

 siding; for this purpose use seven-eighth-inch by six-inch by eight 

 feet matched, planed pine. Lay the boards horizontally and nail to 

 1hf rafters. After the sides are finished, raise the studs for the back 



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