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direct into the shipping coop. I would not place a recently washed 

 bird in open-front quarters until it had had ample opportunity to 

 dry off thoroughly and to get over the effects of its bath. It is 

 simply a matter of common sense judgment. 



Can small chicks be kept in ojDen-front quarters? Tliey can 

 under tlie right conditions. Place suitable brooders in any open- 

 front colony house in winter and run them as 5'ou would out of 

 doors in the spring. Keep the little chicks comfortable and as 

 soon as they are sufficiently well trained let them have the run of 

 the house. Wean gradually and when too big for the brooder take 

 it away and let them continue to occupy the house. 



A successful Connecticut poultryman raises Leghorn chicks in 

 cheap, home-made, lamp-heated, roofless box brooders; operated in 

 cold weather in open-front sheds. It is sometimes so cold that it 

 takes three lamps to keep the hover space warm enough, but the 

 chicks are kept comfortable and thrive. He abandoned an unsatis- 

 factory closed brooder house to use this plan, which has proved 

 successful. It is not necessary to go to such extremes, but if he 

 can raise strong chicks in such exposed hovers you need have no 

 fear about growing them in a well constructed open-front house, 

 provided you use a sensible brooder that admits an abundance of 

 pure breathing air. 



In 1910 Prof. W. E. Graham, Ontario Agricultural College, 

 Guelph, Canada, said in an interview that he considered that: 

 "To date the single-boarded, open-front house has proved superior 

 for getting eggs in winter and keeping the fowls in a healthy state." 

 Prof. Eice, of Cornell, in the same 3'ear, said : "Fresh air is one 

 of the most important assets which we have for building up and 

 maintaining bodily vigor. To get the best results the birds should 

 be housed in open-air buildings." 



Dinsmore & Co., Kramer, Indiana, use fresh-air houses, find 

 them entirely satisfactory and a sick fowl is a rare thing on their 

 plant. They favor the Woods type of open-front house. 



U. E. Fishel, Hope, Indiana, recommends open-front houses, 

 devotes several pages in his latest catalogue to a description of the 

 improved Woods house and says: "I would suggest the building 

 of AVoods' Improved Open-front Poultry House, which I consider 

 the best open-front poultry house built today." 



A circular letter was sent out to representative poultrymen in the 

 United States and Canada, asking what type of poultrv house they 

 preferred for best results — open-front or closed house. The majority 

 were in favor of one or another type of open-front house and one 

 breeder who is located where the temperature sometimes drops 



