the poultryman a chance to do this for with his trap nests to show what each 

 hen is doing he can tell which fowls are money makers, and which are merely 

 boarders and loafers. Laying qualities will vary greatly, even with hens of 

 the same strain and under the same good treatment. Keep the hens having the 

 best trap nest records. Watch the winter trap nest records especially. Keep 

 these profitable birds for breeding. 



One of the greatest helps of the trap nest system is that it makes it 

 possible for the poultry man to identify each egg, know just which hen 

 laid it and by her record decide whether it should be kept for hatching. 

 It isn't always the good looking hen that lays the egg and frequently some of 

 the best layers are sacrificed at the end of the season, while good looking but 

 poorly performing fowls are kept over for breeding. Then the poultryman 

 wonders why it is that his stock grows more and more shiftless about laying. 

 The man with the trap nest knows not only what each hen is doing but 

 what he himself is doing by his system of working. 



THE FRESH AIR HOUSE 



The Tolman Twentieth Century Fresh Air House is probably the most 

 popular of the extreme type in this house and the steady increase in the 

 number used each year indicates they are giving general satisfaction. With 

 this house the south end is run wide open summer and winter, storm or 

 shine. It can be used in the coldest sections of the United States and many 

 parts of Canada, but in bleak and extremely cold locations where the temper- 

 ature goes to zero and frequently below it would be well to arrange a coarse 

 muslin curtain to drop in front of the roost platform at night during the 

 most severe weather. There are several strong points in favor of this house, 

 the chief one being that it promotes health, vigor, a good egg yield with 

 increased fertility and solves the question of perfect ventilation. Breatli- 

 ing a greater amount of oxygen, creates a better circulation of blood and 

 the fowls are kept in the best physical condition all the time. _ The peculiar 

 construction of the house and position of the roosts makes it comfortable 

 for the fowls at night and prevents any danger of their roosting in a draft. 

 Owing to the good ventilation the house is dry and free from frost at all 

 times. 



This fresh air house is a 

 very simple one to construct, 

 being a plain hip-roofed 

 building with a long pitch of 

 the roof to the front or south. 

 For the roof, east, west and 

 north sides, inch boards 

 shingled are recommended, 

 however, any material suit- 

 able for poultry house con- 

 struction can be used so long 

 as the walls are perfectly 

 tight. When a small house is 

 built it should be eight feet 

 wide by fourteen deep, four 

 feet high in front, five feet at rear, and about seven feet at the peak of 

 roof. The originator favors a size somewhat larger than this to meet the 

 requirements for all kinds of weather and locations with a capacity for 

 from 65 to 80 layers. This house should be fourteen feet wide by twenty- 



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Illustration No. 8. 

 The Fresh Air House. 



