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Three Types of Henhouses. 
T HE first picture shows a small house 
10x10 feet used by me for a breed¬ 
ing pen and later as a brooder house. By 
using some old one-inch boards for sheath¬ 
ing. and soft pine from drygoods boxes, 
costing $2.75, for siding, the building cost 
me a little less than $15. besides my 
work. It has a good grade of prepared 
roofing, a floor of matched yellow pine 
and the siding is of matched material re¬ 
ferred to above. The windows were taken 
from an old house and have 8x10 glass. 
The siding between the windows, which 
does not show well in the picture, ex¬ 
tends about half way from the floor to 
the top of the windows. The rest of the 
space between the windows is open and is 
closed in severe weather, and on stormy 
days, by a muslin curtain which is not 
shown, and which swings up and fastens 
with hook to a rafter. This house may 
not conform to the ideas of the “higher- 
ups,” but a flock of S. C. W. Leghorns 
gave me nearly a 60 per cent egg yield 
right through the severe weather of last 
January. 
The second picture shows another 
house built about the same time by a 
neighbor. As will be seen it affords but 
little sunlight and fresh air. This house 
cost between $25 and $30, so the owner 
informed me. It might have been built 
cheaper by leaving a much larger opening 
in front. The building is 8x14 feet and 
much too high for greatest warmth. The 
third picture shows our larger house in 
which we keep our main flock of layers. 
This house is 14x60 feet with studding 
4*4 and seven feet respectively, and roof 
of unequal span. Besides the windows 
shown, there is a window in both ends 
which gives the hens the first and last bit 
of the day’s sunlight. The windows are 
storm sash with 10x14 glass, and are 
Small Brooder House. 
fastened to the siding with screws. Both 
ends, the back, and rafters for about six 
feet above the perches are* ceiled with a 
cheap grade of matched one-incli lumber. 
This makes warm roosting quarters and 
makes the building entirely free from 
drafts. Perhaps I should qualify the lat¬ 
ter statement as I found it necessary to 
place a tight partition every 20 feet to 
prevent a draft from traveling from one 
end of the perches to the other. A south¬ 
west wind would cause quite a strong 
draft from west to east in the roosting 
quarters, and a southeast wind would 
cause a draft from east to west. The 
air seemed to blow in the opening at one 
end, travel the length of the house, and 
More Expensive But Less Desirable. 
out of the opening at the other end. I 
am not sure that I would build another 
house as long as this one. Others may 
not have this trouble. If they do not I 
should be glad to know where the trouble 
lies. The partitions referred to extend 
from the floor to the roof and yet I find 
the shorter house much warmer and free 
from that constant draft which goes from 
end to end on every windy day. 
Ohio. J. D. PRICKETT. 
“Some newfangled scarecrow you have 
in the fields, Hiram?” “No, that’s my 
son. lie insists on wearing his cap and 
gown while hoeing potatoes. He was 
graduated from an agricultural college, 
you know.”—Boston Transcript. 
Hens Good Separators. 
J. II., of Meriden, on page 163, asks 
• an interesting question. By judi¬ 
cious cultivation of a little land in grain, 
three things may be accomplished. A lot 
of excellent feed for a large or small 
flock may be raised, thrashing by hand 
put in as late as July and both will 
make good feed though pinched by an early 
frost. The harvested grain may be piled 
in the chicken runs or near them and 
gradually pulled down for the poultry to 
work upon. And if a large scratching 
shed is available, the grain may be kept 
and to see it working vigorously upon a 
pile of unthrashed grain is a pleasant 
sight for the owner, for he is saving toll 
while losing little if any grain. Oats and 
peas make an especially good combina¬ 
tion, and are sufficiently ripe in August. 
Wheat may be added, but many prefer to 
sow it alone. In any event, several 
months are provided for when no grain 
need be bought, and by means of shelter¬ 
ing the crop the season may be much 
prolonged. c. s. p. 
Feather Pulling; Chicks in Sprayed Orchard. 
HAVE a flock of It. I. Beds. Some 
of them have the feathers just in front 
of the tail pulled out. They have 
corn, oats and wheat, also oyster shell, 
grit, meat scrap and cut bone. What 
is the cause? 2. Is there any danger of 
chickens having for a range an orchard 
that is sprayed? j. s. w. 
1. Feather-pulling is a vice which idle 
hens sometimes acquire and may have its 
origin in irritation of the skin from the 
presence of lice or mites. After the habit 
is formed it is sometimes difficult to 
break it up. If the hens are found to be 
lousy they should be thoroughly dusted 
with some good lice powder and provided, 
if possible, with a dust bath of sifted 
coal ashes, dry loam, or road dust. 2. 
There is no danger, so far as I know, 
in permitting fowls the range of a 
sprayed orchard. M. a. i>. 
LAYING HOUSE 14x60 FEET. 
or machine avoided, and the poultry kept dry and worked down to the end, thus 
busy, which is about as necessary for a prolonging the season indefinitely, 
hen as a human to keep her out of mis- Unshelled corn may be provided, also, 
chief. Oats and peas, and wheat, may all and the hens will get the last kernel from 
be sown very early, preferably upon rich the tightest cob. Much labor is saved 
ground. Barley and buckwheat may be and a healthy flock generally insured; 
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To know motor-car values you need to know the values of the parts. 
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Type# of Bearing# in Use: Anti-friction bearings may 
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Ball Bearings Roller Bearings 
1. Annular. 2. Cup-and-Cone. 3. Straight. 4. Tapered. 
From the text with the 
The illustrations show an example of each, 
pictures you will note these interesting facts: 
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