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continue to hold it on merit. The merit of heing the most sane, 

 sensible and satisfactory metliod of housing domestic poultry. The 

 experience of hundreds of users in extremely cold, temperate and 

 warm climates, has demonstrated beyond question that open-front 

 housing for poultry insures constitutional vigor, better health, 

 better egg yield, better fertility, more hatchable eggs, more and 

 better chicks, greater vitality and better growth in young stock, 

 less danger from disease germs and comparative freedom from 

 disease, therefore assuring greater profits. 



Such houses are easy to care for and therefore make a saving in 

 labor. For vi^arm weather use the modern open-front house can 

 be made still more open, affording sufficiently cool and comfortable 

 quarters for the hot season. It is a house that is sufficiently warm 

 in winter and cool enough in summer. 



Tests made with an open-front house, 10x16 ft., in cold and 

 bleak Saratoga County, New York, with S. C. Minorcas, gave 

 most satisfactory results. With only fifteen fowls housed the in.side 

 temperature in center of house half-way between floor and roof 

 stood at zero when temperature outside of the house registered 15 

 degrees below zero. 



Progressive physicians all over the world are using open-air 

 treatment as a means of preventing disease and as an aid in the 

 cure of disease. Progressive poultrymen are learning that open- 

 air housing will do the same for poultry, will lielp us to more and 

 better poultry and to better returns and better profits. 



Open-air housing has never 3'et killed a fowl, it has not injured 

 one, it has helped and benefited every fowl properly cared for under 

 open-air methods, its has made thousands of fowls more comfort- 

 able and has helped to prevent, check and cure disease in many 

 forms. Why not make your flocks comfortable when it means so 

 much and costs so little ? 



Don't be afraid of fresh air. Fowls don't "catch cold" from 

 being allowed an abundance of pure, fresh, open air under condi- 

 tions which are comfortable. They "catch cold" from breathing 

 confined impure air which has been stirred up by thin cold drafts 

 while the fowls are subjected to the discomfort of chilling and 

 deadly, closed-in, damp, impure air. 



While it is always advisable to start 3'oung birds in open-front 

 quarters and to keep them in such, there is actually less danger in 

 transferring birds from a closed house to an open-front one in cold 

 weather than there is in changing them from one closed house to 

 another or from an open-front house to a closed one. I liave, on 

 several occasions, taken sick fowls from a closed house in winter 



