1913 . 
<rHE> RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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The Original *' Open Front” House. 
There is a man in Massachusetts, Joseph 
Tolman, a poultrynian, who has developed 
a new henhouse. I would like to make 
inquiry about it. C. T. C. 
Lenox, Iowa. 
Mr. Joseph Tolman of Rockland, 
Mass. ,was one of the first advocates of 
the open-front poultry houses. He re¬ 
versed the usual shape of poultry 
houses, making his deeper from front 
to rear than they are wide. A house 
10 or 12 feet wide he would make 16 
feet from front to rear. The peak of 
the roof would be seven feet high and 
about six feet horizontally from the 
rear wall, which would be six feet 
high; thus giving about one foot of 
slope to the roof of the back part. From 
this peak there is a long slope toward 
the front, which is four feet high. The 
roosts are near the rear wall and put 
up high, so that the fowls when on the 
roost are higher than the eaves at the 
front; the idea being that the warm 
air banks up against the roof contin¬ 
ually, and only slowly escapes at the 
front. The roof and sides, also the 
back, must be made very tight, so that 
little or no air escapes except at the 
front. There is a tight-fitting door on 
one side and a window directly oppo¬ 
site on the other side. In Summer 
these are open. This window and door 
are about five feet from the back. The 
front is entirely open to the weather, 
wire netting keeping the fowls in. 
When these houses were first de¬ 
scribed people said, “Why, the snow and 
rain will drive in and wet the whole 
floor,” but it does not, and the reason 
is that there is no way for the air in¬ 
side the house to escape. You cannot 
blow into a small-necked bottle, but you 
can into a fruit jar, because the air 
inside it escapes (unless your mouth 
is big enough to cover the whole top.) 
The principle of the open front house 
is the same. In larger houses of this 
kind it is well to board up part of the 
front at each end, making them more 
“bottle” shape. In long continuous 
houses, it is necessary to put in tight 
partitions, not more than 20 feet apart. 
I have used open-front houses and find 
that the hens lay better, keep healthier, 
and seem more comfortable than in 
closed houses. I have 60 White Leg¬ 
horns in an open-front house now, and 
although the thermometer has been 
down to eight degrees above zero, there 
has not been a sign of frosted comb or 
wattle on any bird. geo. a. cosgrove. 
The Fancier’! Side of It. 
The subject of whether the winners 
at the Madison Square Garden poultry 
show would stand much chance in one 
of the egg-laying contests as utility 
birds is an interesting one. I see no 
reason why a blue ribbon winner in our 
poultry shows cannot be a good layer, 
or in other words, why a winning strain 
cannot be a good laying strain, and 
wouldn’t have just as good a chance in 
an egg contest as what is termed a 
utility bird. Your reader wants to 
know “why” the winners at the Garden 
show do not enter a pen or two of 
their blue ribbon winners in one of the 
egg laying contests, and show their 
worth as utility fowl. I presume there 
are several reasons why winners at such 
a large show as the Garden show have 
never been in an egg contest and the 
main reason in my mind is that there 
is more money to be made in the breed¬ 
ing of these birds as show birds, than 
there would be to put them in an egg 
contest for utility points. If your reader 
ever reads the poultry journals, or is 
a frequent visitor at our best shows, or 
is in touch with any good breeder of 
“fancy” fowl, he well knows the prices 
some of our best breeders get for their 
stock, both for breeding purposes and 
show. There are many birds sold at 
such shows as Madison Square, Boston 
and Chicago, at anywhere from $25 up 
into the hundreds, and many pens sold 
from $100 to $500. Let our reader go 
to a large breeder and price a bird that 
is good enough to win at the Garden 
show, and see what he will have to pay 
for such. _ How many birds do you sup¬ 
pose ever brought $100 each as a utility 
fowl? I for one would not think of 
entering a pen of proven show birds in 
an egg contest. Not from a financial 
standpoint, but I will not say that they 
could not make good. 
It has been proven that our best 
layers fade in color the quickest, and 
naturally a person breeding for color 
would not want those birds forced in 
an egg contest, and at the end of the 
year all faded out and worthless as 
show birds. He can take a winning 
pen and sell those eggs for hatching, 
at from $5 to $10 or even more, per 
setting and make decidedly more from 
them than he could in any contest. This 
is an era of specialty. One has to 
specialize in one thing nowadays, to 
make x success, and I really believe that 
the breeding of show birds belongs to 
the fancier and the breeding of utility 
birds belongs to the one who is also a 
specialist or one who has but one object 
in view, i. e., eggs. 
I have been a breeder of Buff Ply¬ 
mouth Rocks for 12 years, and breeding 
mostly for show purposes, but still hav¬ 
ing the utility end also in view. I have 
never as yet raised a bird good enough 
to win the blue at Madison Square 
Garden, but have been successful in 
smaller shows. At the present time I 
have one pen of my best birds mated 
(10 pullets), and for the first 17 days 
in January they have laid 96 eggs, 
which I consider very good. (Wish I 
had 500 that were doing as good.) Now, 
this pen of birds is what one would 
call “fancy” fowls. Suppose I want to 
breed from this pen entirely for show. 
We will say I trap-nest these birds and 
find that three of the finest in color 
and in other fancy points are the 
poorest layers. The “fancier” would 
breed from those three birds because 
that is his one object, fancy points, 
color, size, shape, etc. On the other 
hand the utility man would take the 
other seven birds or the good layers 
and breed from them regardless of 
fancy points. But I cannot see why 
these 10 pullets as already mated, will 
not produce a “show-utility” strain. We 
will try it. a. l. vreeland. 
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