FOR ALL CLIMATES 



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practically no check in egg yield, no matter how severe the winter 

 weather ehanges may be. 



"The fresh-air house is always dry and comfortable. In closed 

 poultry buildings in severe cold weather moisture collects on the 

 walls which makes the house very uncomfortable. The dampness 

 and lack of fresh air in a closed house, particularly the foul night 

 air that is breathed over and over again, causes fowls to contract 

 colds which develop into roup or other contagious diseases. Damp- 

 ness and bad air also lead to frosted combs and wattles. These 

 conditions of frost, dampness and insufficient fresh air are elimi- 

 nated in my fresh-air type of poultry houses. 



"In a fiesh-air house the fowls have an abundance of pure, fresh 



Modern Tolman house of the improved open-front or fresh-air type as 

 used by Joseph Tolman, Eockland, Mass. 



breathing air at all times, direct from outdoors, night and day. 

 This insures healthy fowls and freedom from infectious ailments 

 common to flocks housed in closed buildings. A house 10x16 feet 

 will accommodate 40 breeders and one 14x24 feet will house com- 

 fortably 100 breeders. This type of building is comfortable for 

 the fowls at all seasons of the year and the air in them is always 

 alive and fresh, never dead and foul as it often is in a closed 

 building. The dry, live air in the open-front house is invigorating 

 and the fowls enjoy their quarters both night and day. In houses 



