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that, while he had done this, he would never think of 

 suggesting that the average poultry-keeper attempt it. 

 In his statement there were some truths that it is 

 well to remember, namely, that the average poultry- 

 keeper would not give the flock the care and super- 

 vision necessary to keep it in health. In other words, 

 the poultry-keeper would not attend to the necessary 

 cleanliness, and disease would break out, and, in the 

 average poultry house, under such conditions, this 

 would mean the total annihilation of the flock. 



Draughts the Stumbling Block 



As economy of space and labor is one of the main 

 factors in getting a commercial profit where poultry 

 is operated with, the large flock system appealed 

 most strongly to The Corning Egg Farm. Long 

 houses, under one roof, without divisions, had been 

 attempted by others, and the endeavor to discover the 

 reason for the failures, where this had been at- 

 tempted, was a very interesting study. It was found 

 that the main stumbling block in houses of this" type 

 was draughts. To eliminate the draughts was the 

 problem we then undertook to solve. It was found 

 that if the houses were built in sections of twenty 

 feet, and the partitions which divided the house into 

 roosting closets were extended twelve inches beyond 

 the dropping boards, and were carried from the floor 

 to the roof, the air currents were broken up, and the 

 difliculty of draughts was overcome. 



