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July 27, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
POULTRY-HOUSE CONSTRUCTION. 
Methods of Housing for Winter Egg 
Production. 
The accompanying illustrations, Tigs. 
344 and 345 show types of modern 
laying houses on the new poultry plant 
at the New Jersey State Experiment 
Station, New Brunswick, N. J. Fig. 
344 is a modern curtain-front house. 
This style is being used throughout the 
country by fanciers as well as utility 
raisers. The house is feet high in 
Curtains also often get off their hinges, 
or become loose, and during the Winter 
when the birds are scratching on the 
floor the curtains become full of such 
fine dust that not much air gets through. 
On the theory that if a little helped, 
more would be perfect, several promi¬ 
nent poultrymen throughout the country 
have experimented with entirely open- 
front houses. These houses are built 
deeper, so allowing the inmates to roost 
farther away from the front. The house 
shown in Fig. 345 is designed by the 
writer and is 40x20 feet. It really is 
two units connected. The farmer’s 
unit is 20x20 to contain 100 fowls. 
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Proper feeding means better health and a larger 
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feed, which acts as tonic and laxative and makes 
June butter bring top prices. You ought to feed 
silage and you ought to cut it with the 
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THE JOS. DICK MFG. CO. 
1426Tu*carawas St. Canton, O. ^ 
A MODERN CURTAIN-FRONT LAYING HOUSE. Fig. 344. 
front and 5j4 feet high in the rear. It 
is 16 feet deep and 144 feet long. Two 
partitions across the house divide it 
into four rooms. This obviates any 
drafts which are liable in a long house 
when all the curtains are open. This 
house has a concrete foundation ; it ex¬ 
tends 18 inches into the ground and 
about six inches above. The floor is 
made of cinders four inches and sand 
two inches, making the top of the floor 
even with the top of the sill and six 
inches higher than the surrounding 
ground. This floor absolutely insures 
dryness at all times. The concrete 
foundation prevents very largely any 
trouble from rats. The droppings boards 
are three feet above the floor and trap- 
nests are nailed up on the walls. Some 
loose litter is used on the floor as a 
scratching material. These dimensions 
have been found to be most satisfactory. 
If the house is built very much deeper 
it becomes necessary to make the front 
higher to secure sufficient light at 
the rear of the house. This house has 
one feature of exceptional merit in its 
perfect ventilation. Severe losses often 
occur from a flock which has laid heavily 
all Winter when the sultry Summer 
nights come on. The rear wall above 
There are other points of merit besides 
its open front. A square house takes 
less lumber than a long house. The 
four walls of this house are 80 feet 
around. A long house, say 10 feet deep, 
would have to be 40 feet in length to 
contain the same number of square feet. 
This house would measure 100 feet 
around. No amount of wind will blow 
down this house, and many poultry 
keepers realize the value of such a 
house after their experience of a few 
weeks ago. The middle partition comes 
down to within three feet of the floor, 
and dark nests are built on the wall 
above. When additional air circulation 
is desired, by opening the windows near 
the roof this is easily secured. When 
the birds are on the perches at night 
over the droppings boards they are 3J^ 
feet above the floor, and entirely pro¬ 
tected from any direct air current. No 
moisture ever gathers in this house, 
and the birds kept there the past Winter 
have given exceptionally good results. 
S. C. W. Leghorns, Barred Plymouth 
Rocks and Partridge Cochins were 
housed, and only the Cochin male birds 
secured a slight frost bite. The Leg¬ 
horns were late-hatched pullets, but they 
kept up a nearly 50 per cent lay during 
A FARMER’S OPEN-FRONT LAYING HOUSE. Fig. 345. 
the perches is double boarded, leaving 
an air space in back and above the 
roosting quarters. One clapboard on 
the outside of the back is hinged. When 
this board is opened it allows a cur¬ 
rent of air to circulate over and around 
the perches, and so adds much to the 
birds’ comfort during hot weather. The 
double boarding also gives additional 
protection from the cold. 
Fig. 345 is an open-front house. 
This house was designed especially for 
the farmer’s use. With a curtain house 
considerable care must be exercised, 
as fowls get accustomed to the protec¬ 
tion of the curtain at night, and will 
show bad signs if through carelessness 
the attendant forgets some cold night. 
February. The same objections are 
being raised against the open-front 
houses that were formerly used on the 
curtain front. Leghorn raisers especi¬ 
ally fear that the high combs and 
pendulous wattles will suffer. In reality 
the supply of fresh air coming in con¬ 
tinually keeps up their circulation to 
such a point that they are able to with¬ 
stand colder nights in these open-front 
houses than in many of the curtain-front 
styles. I believe this house is a perfect 
insurance against roup and all kinds of 
respiratory troubles. Early Spring is 
the time to plan out the work, and fix 
a definite line of work in mind. If 
Winter egg production is the desired 
field, now is the time to choose some one 
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