I02 MATNE; AGRICULTURiVL EXPERIMENT STATION. I906. 



The Incubator House and Poultryman's Residence. 



Last fall the Station constructed an incubator cellar with a 

 residence for the pouItr3^man above it. The building is located 

 conveniently near the poultry building-s and runs, and yet \^uffi- 

 ciently removed to make it desirable as a residence. 



Living so handy enables the poultryman to be in close touch 

 with his work during the incubating and brooding season. 

 ■While the incubators are in operation he inspects them at 5 

 o'clock in the morning and between 8 and 9 P. M. During the 

 breeding period and while the chickens are on the range, it is 

 desirable to have them liberated and fed as soon as they can 

 see to eat in the morning, and not shut in at night until just 

 before dark. This makes a long day for the caretaker, and the 

 handy location of this house enables him to do his work more 

 easily and satisfactorily. 



The incubator cellar is 30 feet square, inside measurements, 

 and 7 feet deep in the clear. Its walls are of concrete material 

 and the floor is cemented. Two large cellar windows are in 

 each of the west, north and east sides, but none on the south, as 

 the warmth of the sun, admitted by windows in that side, would 

 be liable to raise the temperature of the cellar during the middle 

 of the day. The 6 windows give good light for caring for incu- 

 bators and handling the eggs. Broad shutters darken the room 

 when the eggs are being tested. The building has 2 chimneys 

 and each has 2 separate flues. One flue in each chimney con- 

 nects with the house fires and the other ventilates the cellar 

 through adjustable openings. The chimneys being warmed by 

 the up-stair fires cause the ventilating shutes to draw and 

 ventilate the cellar quite well. In addition to these ventilators, 

 the double doors in the roll way have openings 10 inches square 

 with adjustable slides, and when necessary they are used to give 

 complete ventilation. In the mornings, when the lamps are 

 being cleaned and trimmed, and the out-of-door temperature 

 is normal, both of the rollway doors are left partially open so as 

 to quickly remove the odors of the lamps. 



Thorough ventilation and a full supply of clean air to the 

 incubator cellar are imperative. The incubator room is large 

 enough to accommodate 16 of the largest size Cyphers incuba- 

 tors and leave space for passages between the machines for 



