Fin.ST LESSONS IN POULTRY KEEPING. 



This bouse is only 3 It. hi^h iit 

 the plate on south (front) side, and 

 5 ft. from the level of the peu floors 

 to the apex of the rouf. The floor 

 , of the passage in the rear of the 

 pens is excavated to a depth of 2 

 ft. 



The width of the liouse Is 14 ft., 

 ihe length of each peu being 10 ft., 

 mid tlie inside width o£ the walk 

 3 ft. 9 in. Each pen Is S ft. wide, 

 and is lighted by a half window (6 

 lights, 9 X 12) in the middle of the 

 front of the peu. 



To sui>port the roof and carry 

 Giound PlanandCj'oss Section— Brooder House at Lone Oak Pfmltry Farm, ^l^^ partitions between the pens 

 there are two upright pieces of 2 x 3 scantling for each partition; one at the passage, going from the floor 

 of thepassage to the apex of the roof, and one ii little forward of the middle of the house, whicli goes 

 from the floor of the pens to the roof. Partitions between pens are of solid boards 2 ft. higli. Tlie 8 in. 

 bo^ird extending from the passage half way forward is not a part of partition, but a board used to put 

 across pens to keep small chicks close to the hover. 



The real trouble here, as so many places in poultry keeping, was false economy, the desire to 

 keep close to the limit. Poultrymen put more chicks than they should in a brooder, then tried 

 to keep the brooder warm through extreme cold weather with a heater only equal to heating it 

 in ordinary cold weather. Tbey have learned now that it Is easier and cheaper to use a heater 

 that will do the ordinary work required of it without working near up to its capacity than to 

 try to get the results by overworking a smaller heater. 



In designs for continuous brooder houses, there has been variety without end. Almost 

 «very model of a continuous laying house, except the scratching shed and full monitor top 

 plans, I have seen in brooder 

 houses — and these may 

 have been used. The pre- 

 vailing style, however, i s 

 the plain long house with 

 double pitched roof, and the 

 types of this style of house 

 d o not vary strikingly i n 

 appearance or construction. 

 Some are full height (about 

 6 ft.) at the sides. Others 

 are built lower, the front 

 wall being not more than 

 three and a half to four feet 

 high, and the rear wall a 

 foot or so high. In such a 

 house th3 walk is excavated 

 to a sufficient depth to give 

 plenty of head room over 

 il, while the rest of the 



Partition Beiueen Pins and Passage in Lone Oak Farm brooder Jlome. 



Tills partition consists of two light frames for each pen covered with 



inch mesh poultr>' wire, and hung on hinges. 



