26 OPEN-AIR POULTRY PIOUSES 



"A ncio'libor with new brick poultrj' liouse witli stove and fire 

 night and daj-. Very enthusiastic. No end of care. Fed fresh 

 meat some, and variety of good things. Sat up late to tend fire. 



"Educated, very intelligent and energetic young woman with 

 Philo plant and 55 early well developed Wyandotte pullets raised 

 by her in the plant. Tremendous lot of work put in. 



"Good output of winter eggs in all three flocks. Stove man 

 very slightly ahead. Philo lady and I 'nip and tuck.' But now 

 see where I shine. My birds by long odds more vigorous than 

 eitlier of the other flocks. Philo lady ran a small hen hospital 

 on the side. I had need of none. Half my number semi-tropical 

 Leghorns. 



"I came to scofE and remained to pray. I am converted and 

 reformed. Thought I nnderstood fowls. For nearly fifty years 

 I have preached ventilation. Am throngh. No ventilation is 

 necessary for a bird in a tree, or for fowls which have practically 

 the same exposure to the outside air as their wild progenitors had 

 in the trees." 



Friend Reader, take a tip from Editor Stoddard, a man who 

 knows poultry as probably no other living man on this green earth 

 does, give the modern, practical open-front house a thorough and 

 fair trial, forget your doubts and let experience convince you. 

 Even if you, too, have come to scoff, you will remain to pray. 



Secretary F. D. Coburn, of the Kansas State Board of Agri- 

 culture, says relative to poultry housing : "Pure air must be 

 supplied at all times if the fowls are to do their best. Pure fresh 

 air is a tonic — an invigorator — and will do more toward keeping the 

 fowls healthy than all the nostrums ever invented. Whatever plan 

 (of housing) is used, pure fresh air must be supplied. It is not 

 a luxury, but a necessity — just as essential to thrift and health as 

 food and water." 



C. L. Opperman, instructor in poultry husbandry, says : "The 

 perfection of the open-air house has made it possible to save almost 

 one-half the cost over former construction, for it has been demon- 

 strated that the health and productiveness of the flock is much 

 better than when double-walled construction and various ventilating 

 devices were in use." 



Henry B. Prescott, practical poultryman, Derry. N. H., believes 

 in fresh air for poultry of all ages. Plis remarks concerning chicks 

 are of interest : "An abundance of good vitalized air is an import- 

 ant factor in poultry raising. The fresh air chick comes into the 

 Avorld with an especially good lease on life for he is possessed of 

 one of the most valuable qualities in man or beast, that of power 



