Housing 135 



I thought so well of this house that I began to work on it. 

 It represented the result of my fifteen years' fight with roup. 

 I applied for a patent on it after I got it perfected. 



Those hens that were suffering very badly from roup I 

 kept in another building. I kept them there for several 

 months, and while most of them recovered there were only 

 a few of them that had more than one eye left. When I left 

 this place some of these hens still had the roup very badly, 

 and that is why I say that it is not worth while bothering 

 about hens after they become very badly affected with roup. 

 It is better to spend your time in preventing, not trying to 

 cure, roup. 



You will always find that the changes in ventilation that 

 are beneficial to roup prove to be just as much so to canker, 

 for canker is only another form of roup and should receive 

 the same treatment. While I have had roup without canker, 

 I have never had canker without roup. 



If you attempt to put hens suffering from roup out in trees 

 to roost in bad weather, the change would not only be harm- 

 ful to them, but the exposure would probably kill many of 

 them, just as it would kill you if you were suffering from 

 pneumonia and were forced to live out-of-doors in bad 

 weather. 



At this same place I had a brooder house 18x50 feet in 

 size and seven feet from the floor to the roof. In this 

 house tongue-and-groove lumber was used. This brooder 

 house was divided in the center, so that I had two rooms 

 18x25 feet in size. Each room was ventilated by four air- 

 shafts placed on the outside. These were about five feet in 

 length and extended down to within two feet of the ground. 

 Each shaft was provided with a slide to regulate the amount of 

 air. The shafts were in the corners of each room. In the 

 center of the roof was a ventilator, one foot square, extending 



