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BROILERS AND ROASTERS: 



repeating in each the descriptions of similar features. I 

 will therefore describe first a brooder house which is one 

 of the best models I have seen. In fact, in the ten years 

 or more since it was first built the house has several times 

 been remodeled, and in its present form combines the 

 results of years of experiment supplemented by lessons 

 from the experience of many other operators of brooder 

 houses. 



If the reader will take a glance at the cross section 

 in the cut below, at the ground plan on page 43, 



Cross Section of Brooder House, 



At Lone Oak Poultry Farm, Reading, Mass. 



and the view of a part of the exterior of the house on 

 page 47, before I begin to explain the plan of the house 

 and the reasons for its proportions, dimensions, and special 

 features, he will better understand the allusions to each cut 

 as there is occasion to refer to it in describing the house. 



The house is low — only 3 ft. high from the foundation 

 to the plate on the front or south side, with .the apex of 

 the roof only 5 ft. from the level of the pen floors. The 

 floor of the passage in the rear of the pens is excavated to 

 a depth of 2 ft. This arrangement reduces the amount of 

 cubic space in the house, while still giving the operator 



