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OPEN-AIR POULTRY HOUSES 



were obtained. Perhaps readers will be interested to know what 

 led me to develop my fresh-air poultry house. During the spring 

 of 1903, Dr. Prince T. Woods visited a number of poultry plants 

 in my neighborhood, where at that time very unsatisfactory re- 

 sults were being obtained. Post-mortem examinations made on a 

 great many birds of various ages led him to believe that an abun- 

 dance of fresh air in the poultry houses night and day was what 

 was most needed to put the stock in better condition. Acting on 

 his advice, I took the windows out of my poultry houses at once and 

 kept them out until late fall. Seeing a marked change in t|ie 



Group of large Tolman houses on plant of Joseph Tolman, Rockland, 

 Mass. (Photo by Dr. Woods.) 



health and vigor of my birds, and knowing the remarkable results 

 being obtained in the treatment of the diseases of human beings 

 by treating them in open-air sleeping rooms, I felt sure that in 

 order to get best results with my breeders I needed to keep the 

 poultry house windows wide open all winter. This was the winter 

 of 1903 and 1904, and now after eight winters of open-air poultry 

 housing I could not be induced to return to old-fashioned closed 

 poultry buildings. I am convinced that open-front, fresh-air poul- 



