February, 191 3 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



POULTRY 



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SHORT CUTS FOR POULTRY 



KEEPERS ! *^ 



By E. I. FARR1NGTON ^ 



SUCCESSFUL poultry keeping without 

 work is impossible, but there afe many 

 ways in which to make this work -light. 

 Most men and women who keep hens' 1 dis- 

 cover or invent various short cuts and some 

 of them are of sufficient value to be passed 

 along for the information and assistance of 

 the whole army of amateurs. 



Take the matter of testing eggs after 

 the incubator has been started or when 

 sitting hens are being used to hatch out 

 the next season's flock. One man has dis- 

 covered that this work can be greatly 

 simplified by placing a board over the 

 window in the cellar where his machines 

 are operated, the board having a hole in 

 the middle just a trifle smaller than a eg? 

 of average size. An hour when the sun 

 is shining on the window is chosen, and 

 by placing the eggs one after another over 

 the opening in the board, their condition 

 may be determined very rapidly. Of 

 course the board shuts out all the light ex- 

 cept what passes through the hole and 

 through an egg when one is held against 

 the opening. 



If a strip of black cotton cloth is tacked 

 to the top of the board on the inside, it may 

 be thrown over the head of the operator, 

 so that this device may be used in a room 

 with many windows and while it is filled 

 with light, the cloth creating a sort of 

 testing closet. If the window is a large 

 one. a light frame covered with building 

 paper may be used instead of a board. The 

 originator of the scheme had a single win- 

 dow at the end of an incubator cellar. 



Probably there are ten shed-roof poultry 

 houses to one of a different design, for 

 such houses are the easiest to build and in 

 a general way are the most satisfactory for 

 the amateur. If a shed-roof-house is low, 

 however, it is very likely to be hot in Sum- 

 mer, especially at the rear, where the fowls 

 ordinarily roost. For that reason, one or 

 more openings just under the eaves are of 

 no little value, inducing cross ventilation 

 and making the house much cooler. It is 

 necessary to have hinged boards so ar- 

 ranged that they may be closed tightly 

 over the openings when Winter comes. 

 Except in very cold sections of the coun- 

 try, roostincf closets are not desirable. 

 These closets were first exploited by the 

 Maine State Experiment Station, it will be 

 remembered, and were widely used for a 

 time, but have gradually been abandoned 

 to a large extent. They are constructed by 

 boxing in the roosts at the top and bottom 

 and fitting a hinged frame covered with 

 muslin over the front, the frames to be 

 fastened to the roof save on cold nights. 

 Sometimes such devices can be used to ad- 

 vantage in houses of the open-front type, 

 but the tendency is to close them on nights 

 when the fowls would be better off if they 

 left open. As a rule, a much better 

 plan is to construct a muslin covered frame 



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