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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1908 



Interior View of the Chicken House 



a large farm — two hundred and fifty or three hundred acres incubators which it is to contain; for further protection, how- 

 — but it lies so it is naturally drained, although artificial ever, earth is usually banked against the lower portion of the 

 drainage as well is usually provided. Most of the incubator outside walls. 



houses are located at least half way underground, and for So many different kinds of incubators have been designed, 



this reason are sometimes termed incubator cellars. An ex- each giving good results, that it is needless to describe any 

 cavation to the depth of three feet is generally made and particular one in this article. The brooders, however, may 

 lined with cement so that it will be 

 moisture proof. The side walls are 

 usually of brick or concrete, except 

 two or three feet in the upper por- 

 tion, which consists of wooden siding, 

 into which windows are set for light 

 and air. The average height of the 

 incubator cellar is about seven feet, its 

 other dimensions being proportioned, 

 of course, according to the number of 



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The Colony System of Raising Poultry, Showing How Small Flocks Are 

 Kept in Individual Houses 



Brooder House Where Seven Thousand 

 Chickens Can Be Kept 



be of a portable character, but 

 heated with lamps, or buildings 

 equipped especially for the purpose 

 and heated by steam or hot water. 

 In the establishment illustrated the 

 brooder house is kept at a suitable 

 temperature by coils of pipe in which 

 water heated to a suitable tempera- 

 ture is circulated. In the modern 

 brooder house twelve hundred chick- 

 ens can readily be provided for in a 

 space of sixteen by one hundred and 

 twenty-five feet. As a rule eight 



