IV. HOUSING 



Everyone thinks he knows all about feeding poultry, but 

 those who are most advanced in this science know that they 

 are only scratching on the surface of the subject. The same 

 thing holds good in housing poultry. Everyone thinks he 

 knows all there is to know about this subject, but housing 

 is as highly specialized as feeding. 



You will seldom find two poultry farms using the same 

 kind of buildings. You will find that many know nothing 

 about ventilation or planning a plant, and through inexperi- 

 ence and through not arranging their plants in the right way 

 these farms are failures from the start. 



We learn from experience. I have put in many plants, and 

 the way I install them enables one man to care for several 

 thousand hens more easily than he could a far smaller number 

 by any other system. 



I have the only draught-proof house in existence which 

 supplies fresh air to fowls at all times and in any climate 

 or location. 



Boards and battens warp and shrink and leave cracks 

 through which the winds enter and create draughts. Of 

 course, they are cheap, but like all cheap things they come 

 high in the end. It pays in the long run to put in good 

 buildings and not cheap ones, whether they are my poultry- 

 buildings or some other. 



I sell the plans for the buildings and also sell the buildings 

 separate from the rest of my system. The lumber for my 

 large poultry house to hold 1,000 hens costs about $350.00, 

 which includes tongue-and-groove lumber, ten skylights, and 



