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of resistance or disease resisting ability. Wlien we want a fire 

 to burn more freely we open the drafts and allow a free contact of 

 the air with the fuel; when we want the best development of the 

 chick or better results with adult fowls, we must see to it that the 

 supply of oxygen is unlimited. The best way to do this is to let 

 the chick live in the fresh air from hatching time to maturity." 



Joseph Tolman, Eockland, Mass., one of the pioneers in fresli- 

 air housing, says : "In the spring of 1903, after eight years in 

 the poultry business, using old-fashioned, closed house methods, 

 and having very poor results, I decided, upon the advice of Dr. 

 Prince T. Woods, the well-known writer and authority on poultry 

 diseases, to give my fowls more fresh air both night and day. I 

 have learned that fresh-air methods mean better, healthier, more 

 profitable poultry. Fresli air prevents and cures disease. It 

 increases the egg yield, insures fine fertility, good hatches, and big 

 sturdy chicks that live and thrive. Fowls housed in my open-front 

 house show practically no check in egg yield, no matter how severe 

 or how sudden the winter changes of weather may be. I was nearly 

 down and out. Adopting fresh-air methods put me on my feet 

 again and enabled me to make a success of my poultry keeping. 

 Now, after nine winters of fresh-air housing of breeding and laying 

 stock and fresh-air rearing for the young flocks, I am planning to 

 build more open-front buildings and have invented and built a large 

 successful fresh-air brooding system that makes chick raising easy." 



D. W. Eich, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, has had five or six years ex- 

 perience with open-front houses and finds them a great success in 

 the severe and changeable climate of that section. Such houses 

 are still quite new and novel in his neighborhood, but his success 

 with them is interesting many poultry keepers. Among the benefits 

 of fresh-air houses claimed by Mr. Eich are : "Hardier, healthier 

 and more vigorous fowls, with roup and colds almost eliminated." 

 He believes that in the near future the open-front house will be 

 the type of poultry building in general use throughout the middle 

 west. 



F. C. Marshall, West Burke, Vt., prefers open-front colony houses 

 and believes that they will solve the problem of producing and 

 maintaining healthy poultry in his state. He finds that it has 

 improved the health and vigor of his flocks. 



Dr. C. Bricault, Lawrence, Mass., says: "I was a warm-house 

 advocate at first, but when I saw the good effects of the open house 

 I adopted it and I would not go back to the closed house. I have 

 tried open-front houses over twelve years, so am in a position to 

 judge." , 



