The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1061 
The Henyard 
The Woods Open Poultry 
House 
On page 953 you describe an open-front 
henhouse. In such f building the rains 
and snows would drive in, wetting the 
litter. Is this avoided in any way? When 
the cold winds drive into an open window 
I find the hens seek a sheltered position, 
which, in a way, lessens the floor space 
per hen. Will an open-front building ac¬ 
commodate as many birds as a closed 
building? There are extremes to every 
phase of life—'most of us profit by taking 
the middle course. One extreme type of 
henhouse is one with no ventilation. Is 
the open-front type the other extreme, 
and to be avoided? What is you advice 
to me regarding it? d. s. 
Cooperstown, N. Y. 
The It. N.-Y. sends me some letters 
criticizing the open-front poultry-house as 
described and advocated by Dr. Woods in 
a recent article. One letter is from 
Cooperstown, N. Y., and another letter 
from Schenectady, N. Y. Both these 
poultrymen think the open-front poultry- 
house is cruel, or at least uncomfortable, 
for the hens; and they are mistaken. 1 
can remember that we used to caulk the 
windows of our dwelling houses with rags 
to keep out the cold. Now we sleep with 
the windows wide open. If that had been 
done by anyone in the old times they 
would have been thought crazy. My 
poultry experience extends over 50 years; 
I, too, used to make tight poultry-houses, 
but with experience have learned better. 
The last two houses I built were 20x20 
ft., with front open from sill to plate, a 
distance of 4 ft. But 5 ft. at each end 
were boarded up. One inquirer asks if 
snow and rain doesn’t blow in and wet 
the litter? My answer is, in ordinary 
storms, no. The roof boards extend out 
beyond the front 5 or 6 in.; then I have a 
V-shaped eave-trough to receive and carry 
the rain water to one side. This all helps 
to prevent ordinary storms from wetting 
the inside. Then for driving gales of 
snow or rain, I have two curtains, cloth 
nailed to Avood frames; these are hinged 
at top, and swing up against the roof 
and are held there by hooks nearly all 
the time. When dropped to shield the 
inside against some driving storm, wood¬ 
en buttons hold them in place, at the bot¬ 
tom. In actual experience I don’t use 
these curtains a dozen times a year. 
If a house is practically airtight at back 
and sides, air cannot blow in at the front 
until some of the inside air blows out, and 
the longer a house is the more easily does 
this occur. To prevent these drafts at 
night, partitions not more than 10 ft. 
apart divide the roost section into com¬ 
partments. But while the hens are ac¬ 
tive, moving about, scratching, etc., they 
do not mind this movement of the air. In 
fact, it is giving them a fresh supply of 
pure air all the time. 
The back part of my houses is only 8 
ft. wide; the front is 12 ft. A partition 
runs down from the peak of the roof to 
within 2% ft. of the floor; a door 5 ft. 
wide admits into the front part. The 
roosts and the nests are in this back part, 
so that at night they are in a smaller 
house, 8x20, and the windows are hung 
on screws at each end so they may be tilt¬ 
ed at any angle to let in or out much or 
little air as may be desired. A wide shelf 
was built against this partition and the 
nest boxes put on that shelf. The worst 
possible place for nests is under a drop¬ 
pings board. Dice and mites get into the 
cracks or joints of the boards and then 
into the nests and it is almost impos¬ 
sible to keep them free from lice. So I 
decided not to have any droppings boards 
in my new houses. A wide board on edge 
kept the litter from being scratched into 
the droppings, and dry earth absorbed 
all odor, so that the droppings were re¬ 
moved only twice a year. What a lot of 
labor saved! 
The roosts were 2x4, 19 ft. long, slight¬ 
ly rounded on the top side. I notice that 
a hen would be crowded off the end some¬ 
times, so I nailed a shingle on the ends 
of each roost. I got absolutely free of 
lice and mites, and much more cheaply 
than by using carbolineum. I painted the 
roosts on all sides but the top, with hot 
grease. Any kind will do; beef, mutton, 
or hog fat. I painted the corners of all 
the nest boxes, too, and the roost sup¬ 
ports. then rubbed a piece of “blue oint¬ 
ment” into the skin of each hen under and 
over the vent, and wiped my fingers un¬ 
der her wings. Then for three years not 
one mite or louse could be discovered in 
that house. I often lifted the roosts out 
of the slots and turned them over, but 
could never find a mite. About seven 
years ago I sold my farm. The long row 
of small tight poultry-houses that I had 
built 20 years before he has torn down 
and now has five long open-front houses, 
in which he keeps my old stock of White 
Leghorns. Each year he builds more 
houses and increases his flock of birds to 
fill the constantly increasing demand for 
his stock. These are 'big-combed Leg¬ 
horns, but seldom is a comb injured by 
frost. In his cockerel house he has a cur¬ 
tain made of thin bran sacks, to drop in 
front of the roosts on very cold nights. 
The cold here reaches 10 to 12 degrees 
below zero every Winter, and I have 
known it 20 below. The hens in these 
open-front houses lay well all Winter. 
I think that hens kept in these open- 
front houses are hardier, more enduring 
and less liable to disease than those kept 
in tight houses, and if anyone should open 
the door of one of those houses on a Win¬ 
ter day and listen to the noise of those 
singing, cackling hens, as I have, he would 
have no doubt of their perfect content and 
happiness. geo. a. cosgkove. 
A truant officer made a call at the 
home of a pupil whose absence had ex¬ 
tended for over a week. “Mickey is now 
past his thirteenth year,” said the boy's 
mother, “an’ me and his father think he’s 
after havin’ schoolin’ enough.” “School¬ 
ing enough?” repeated the officer. “Why, 
I did not finish my education until I was 
23.” “Be that so?” said the woman in 
amazement. Then, reassuringly, after a 
thoughtful pause: “Well sor, ye see that 
boy of ours has b-r-rains.”—Boston 
Transcript. 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
In answer to many questions about this egg- 
lay in;; contest, tlie following facts are given; 
It is held at Storrs Postoffice in connection 
with the Connecticut Agricultural College. The 
contest begins November 1. There are 10 pul¬ 
lets in each pen. All the birds receive uniform 
treatment. The houses are all alike, and the 
feed is the same for all. The contest continues 
for one year. The weekly records cover the 
number of eggs laid for each pen in the current 
week, and also the total number of eggs laid 
since the first of last November. The contest 
will end November 1, at which time these birds 
will be removed, and another set of pullets 
entered for the next year. 
Week ending July 9, 1924: 
Week Total 
BARRED ROCK8 
Purdue University, Ind. 40 1418 
W. H. B. Kent, N. Y. 55 1231 
Ontario Agricultural College, Ont .... 41 1384 
Lewis Farms, RI. 38 927 
Jules F. Francais, L. 1. 39 959 
Morris E. Bride, Conn. 41 1206 
Woburn Poultry Farm, Mass. 30 1086 
Miss Harriet Smith, Mass. 28 1215 
Edgar Stoughton Conn. 48 1430 
Merritt M. Clark.Conn. 49 1284 
K. C. Foreman, Mich. 38 1207 
Keewaydin Farm. Conn. 48 1191 
J. V. Sheap, Mich... 22 914 
The Ferguson Farms. Tenn. 20 886 
Jasper E. Guptill, Maine. 37 1163 
Storrs Exp. Station, Conn. 26 799 
The Ramblers Farm, N.Y . 40 1037 
W. J, Aretiholz, N.Y. 36 1079 
WHITE ROCKS 
Monstone Farm, Mass. 26 806 
Ameling Farms, Mo. 31 1357 
S. Bradford Allyn, Mass. 18 955 
Davidson Bros., Mass. 20 1021 
Cha8. E, Butler, Conn. 24 864 
Albert T. Lenzen, Mass. 22 1087 
Harold F. Baroer. Mass. 44 1431 
H. B,.Spangler, N, J. 20 972 
WHITE WYANDOTTKS 
D. O. Witmer, Mo. 27 1451 
Obed G. Knight, R. 1. 28 1114 
F. L. Weiland, Ky. 33 1064 
Frank P Matteson, R. I . 44 1286 
Hi-Quallty Hennery, Vt. 33 1059 
Clemens J. Diemand, Conn. 12 788 
Woodbridge Orchards, Conn. 15 802 
William E. Moran, Conn. 36 1311 
Albert W. Buckbee, N. Y. 26 1312 
H. Y. Bierly, Pa. 45 1277 
RHODE 18LAND REDS 
Sunnyfields Farm, Conn. 41 1290 
H. P. Doming, Conn. 41 1128 
Scott’s Red Farm, II. 25 1036 
Abbot M. Smith, Conn.. . 20 645 
Fellows Bros.. Conn. 41 1149 
E. Newton Searles, Conn. 11 1316 
Geo. R. Treadwell, Mass . 35 1225 
Sunset Poultry Farm, Mass. 40 1462 
John Z. Labelle. Conn. 42 1301 
I. W. Mitchell, Conn. 30 979 
F. S. Chapin, Mass. 28 967 
F. H. Sampson, Mass. 10 1001 
Jas. E. Ewing, Vt. 15 97J 
Spring Brook Poultry Farm, Conn_ 40 1111 
Fernslde Farm, Mass. 51 1893 
Dickinson Bros.. Mass. 23 1160 
Pmecrest Orchards, Mass. 32 1446 
Ed. A. Oelkuct, Conn. 43 1176 
W. A. Dickinson, Mass. 37 1031 
Maurice F. Delano, Mass. 34 978 
Deer Brook Poultry Farm, N. H. 24 1286 
Red Mount Farm. Mass. 51 1516 
Forest H. Clickner, N. J. 27 1248 
Charles H. Lane. Mass. 28 1075 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
Roy H. Waite, Md. 44 1430 
Small’s Poultry Farm, Conn. 38 1165 
Francis F. Lincoln, Conn. 34 1549 
S. G. McLean, Conn . 39 1254 
ueo A. Grouten, Conn.’. 20 1241 
E. H. Scott. Conn . . 25 1174 
F. M. Johnson, Maine. 45 1560 
Hollywood Farm, Wasli. 39 1154 
A. B. Hall, Conn. 41 1123 
W. E. Atkinson, Conn. 28 1299 
Beck Egg Farm, N. J. 44 1130 
Edgar Stoughton, Conn.’.... 49 1227 
Ernest W. Picker, N. J. 35 792 
Hanson’s Poultry Farm. Ore. 48 1491 
O. G. Reame, Pa. 36 1239 
Pussy Willow Egg Farm, L. 1. 44 1118 
Mountain Meadow Farm, Vt. 42 J494 
Ernest Craze, N. J. 35 1343 
Acrebridge Farm, Mass. 21 1067 
Hilltop Farm, Conn. 63 1727 
St. John’s Poultry Farm. Mo. 45 1517 
Andrew L. Ohr, Conn. . 51 1208 
C. T. Darby, N. J. . 51 1790 
Spring Brook Poultry Farm. Conn_ 43 922 
R. C. Dunn, Mass.. 30 903 
L. W. Steelman, Pa. 61 1441 
Barlow Leghorn Farm, Pa. 50 1219 
White Springs Farm, N. Y. 34 1135 
Meadowedge Farm, L. I. ... 50 1256 
Emory H. Bartlett, Mass. 53 1422 
Eigenrauch & DeWinter, N. J. 47 1193 
Rapp's Leghorn Farm, N. J. 48 1330 
Featherland Farm, Pa. 44 1197 
M. J. Quackenbnsh, N. J. 37 966 
Francis J. Hogan. Mass. 47 1094 
Mount Hope Farm, Mass. 26 1227 
Exmoor Farm, Pa . 43 1152 
Ruchles Snnuyside Farm, N.Y. 48 1426 
O. C. Chadwick, Vt. 52 895 
George B. Ferris, Mich. 51 1373 
Total. 3610 119006 
PULLETS 
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Thousands of excelli.it April hatched pullets now 
ready for delivery. Stock sold on a safe delivery, en¬ 
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Come and see one of the best modern plants, which is 
located on a hundred acre fruit farm. Free range. 
Cockerels and breeding stock. Distributor for Carboii- 
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Only one application a year tequired. $1.75 a gal. 
$1.40 a gal. in 5. gallon cans. 
FARLEY PORTER Itox W SORU8, N. Y. 
S.C.W. LEGHORNS 
About 1,000 farm range pullets 
weighing from 1 to 2 lbs.; 
price, 80c per lb. (5c per oz.) 
in lots of 25 or more. 
YATES FARMS Orchard Park, N. Y. 
COCKERELS 
Pure Hollywood strain. We purchased the pens ihat 
won the Storrs Egg Laying Contest Season of 1921-22, 
also 1922-23. Highest record pens ever entered at Storrs 
Contest, mated these to the highest record best male 
lords the Hollywood Farms had to offer from 304 312 and 
328 egg dams. We have cockerels hatched in Jan., Feb., 
Mar. and April, range raised, well-grown, price, $7.60, 
$10.00 and S1S.00 each, according to selection and 
egg record of dam. Full pedigree furnished. Also have 
a few good breeding hens. Must please or money back. 
FIVE POINT LEGHORN FARM, MT. EPHRAIM, N. J. 
CHICKS 
FROM GOOD FREE RANGE STOCK 
Rocks, $8 per 100 ; Wyandottes, $11 per 100,; White Leg¬ 
horns, $7 per 100; Mixed, $8 per 100. Special price on 
large lots. Delivery guaranteed. Catalog and Kef. free. 
LONG’S RELIABLE HATCHERY. Millerstown. Pa. Box 50 
R. I. Reds, White Wyan- Dw.U^f 0 
dotte, White Leghorn 1 UIICIS 
5-mos.-old, $2 50 each; 4-mos.-old, $2.25each. Every 
bird to please you or you may ship back at once. 
T. R. THOMAS The Maples Bristol, Vermont 
CHICK PRICES SMASHED 
I June, July, Aug. and Sept. $7 per 100 and up. 
Hogan tested. White, Brown and Black Leghorns, 
100—$8: Black Minurcas, Ancones, 100—$10; 
Barred Rocks White Wyandottes, 100—$11. Reds, 
100—*12. Broilers, 100—$7, 100 % live delivery 
guaranteed. We ship anywhere by Parcel Post. 
Free Catalog. Reference; Ickesburg State Bank. 
Johnson's Hatchery Box 40 lokesburg, Pa. 
CITICIiS C. O. D. 
25 50 100 
S. C. R. I. Reds.$3.25 $6.00 $11.00 
Barred Rocks. 3.00 5.50 10.00 
S. C. W. Leghorns.... 2.50 4.50 8.00 
100* Del. Guar. C. M. LAUVER, Box 73, McAlislerville, Pa. 
C ff ¥ r* if c o f healthy 
“ 4 v ' *'* FREE-RANGE STOCK 
S. C. Bufr and W. Leg., »8—100. Barred Rocks, 
*10—100. R. I. Beds, *10—100. White Kecks, 
*12—100. Lite Mixt, *7—100. Hevy Mixt, *8 
—100. Sat. guar.er money refunded. Circ. free. 
JACOB NIEMOND, McAllsterville, Pa. Bu l 
BABY CHICKS 
S. C. W. Leghorns, 8.; B. P. Hocks, 9c; R. I. 
Reds, 10c; Mixed, 7e. Order from adv. 
VALLEY VIEW JIATOIIERY 
C. I. BENNER Box 8* Klelifield.Pa. 
/">¥ TT/^iT^'O W. and Brown Leghorns, 
tor'lll K,S 7c; Barred Rocks. 9c; Reds. 
lOc, and Mixed, 7c each. 100* 
Guaranteed. Ol der from this adv. or write for circ. 
CHERRY HILL HATCHERY WH. NACE. Prop. 
McAllsterville, Pa 
R AR Y Mixed or Broilers.$ 7 per 100 
■ 8. O, W. Leghorn. 8 per 100 
C U| Y Barred Rocks.lO per 100 
w n 1 yv s c R . L Re(ls . 10 per 100 
Special prices on 500 lots. 100*live del. guaranteed. Host¬ 
age paid to your door. FRANK RACE. McAllsterville, Pa. R. D. 2 
BABY CHICKS 
S. C. W. Leghorns, 8c; Barred Rock, 9c; Red, 10c; 
Mixed, 7c. Special prices on large lots. Safe delivery 
guaranteed. C. 1*. Leister McAllsterville, Pa. 
ALL CHICKS NOW 9c 
“ Parks’ ” Bar Rock. " Martin’s ” W. Wyandotte. 
Mixed or my choice @ 8c. Direct strains. None 
better. Order 25 to 1,000. Delivery and satisfaction 
guaranteed. Bank ref. S. W. KUNE, Middlecreek, Pa. 
C? HICKS From Heavy-Laying Flocks 
Barred Rocks, 9c j Reds, 8c and Mixed, 7c. 100* safe 
delivery. B. W. AMEY Cocoluinus, Pa. 
Pill | CTQ Pure-Bred Single Comb 
■ W ■- ■- & 1 ° WHITE L E G H O K N 8 
10-12-14 and 16-wks.-old. Also ready-to-lay. free- 
range birds from selected breeders. Priced $1 and 
up, according to age. Fisher llros., Atlantic, Pa. 
April Hatch White and Brown Leghorn Pullets 
Extra stock, $1.50 each, lO-wks.-old White and 
Brown Leghorn Pullets, $1 each. Ancona, $1.25 each. 
HUMMER’S POULTRY FARM R. No. 1 Frenchtown. N. J. 
Pllllofc c <xskerels and yearling hens for sale for breed- 
lUllclo jug Bred from birds trapnested at Storrs Col¬ 
lege. O. G. KNIGHT - Bridgeton, Rhode Island 
Whifp Wvanflnffoc 2-4-6;8-wks. <dd, cheap. Older Stock, 
nilllc nydnUUITcS Kgg and Exhibition bred. Catalogue. 
Bowden White Wyandotte Specialist, Mansfield, Ohio 
White Leghorn and Barred Rock ®om e t d his n lean’s 
breeding pens. Walter Schedler, West Coxsacklo, N.Y. 
Early Hatched White Leghorn Si^eVss Pu " e " * i * * * S. * * 
spection Invited. Hall Brothers 
Stock. In- 
Wallingford, Conn. 
White Wyandottes M,N T o u,,ett an w^.ri 8 ^ Y 
Barron W. Leghorn Yearlings 
nient and satisf’n guar. s. FRankmah, r. d. i, Lakewood. N. J. 
R I Rorl* 2-4-6-8-wk« -old, cheap. Fine quality 
• Is IICUo s. Bowden Box 196 MartKf 
Mansfield, O. 
Light Brahma 
PULLETS, 
over, $ 2 . 
April hatched; $2.26 each; 25 or 
TABOR FARM Longmeadow, Mass. 
Dure Bred Jersey Black Giants. Cocks, $5; Cockerels, 
' $2* Nelson Jehl Bloomfield, Conn. 
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soles, will surely last more than six months. 
SEND NO MONEY— Pay postman $2.86 plus postage 
on delivery. Money back if not satisfied. 
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BABY CHICKS 
Barred Plymouth Rocks _$ 9.00 per 100 
Rhode Island Reds . 10.00 per 100 
S. C. White Leghorns . 7.00 per 100 
Prompt Shipment. Live Delivery Guaranteed 
NITTANY VALLEY HATCHERY 
Box 113 Belleloxite, Penna. 
THIS MEANS $$$ TO YOU 
PARKS’ Bred-to-Lay 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
Choice Breeders^ PRICE. Young Stock 
X matured Price. 16 page Stock Circul¬ 
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J. W. PA KK8, Box Y, Altootin, Pa. 
PARKS’ Barred Rocks 
Owen Farm’s Reds, Martin’s White Wyandottes. 
Yearling pullets, $2.50 each; pullets, 3 months, 
$1.75; 4 mouths, $2, 
RIVERDALE POULTRY FARM. Box 165. Rlverdale, N. J. 
CHICKS 
S. C. Ruff and E. White Leghorns... $8.00 per 100 
American White Leghorns. 7.00 per 1 DO 
Rocks. 9.00 per 100 
R. I, Reds. 9 50 per 100 
White Rocks . 12.00 per 100 
Heavy Mix..$8.00 per 100 I Light... .$8.00 per 100 
CLOYD NIEMOND McAllsterville, Pa. 
8. C. W. Leghorns, He each ; per 500, *87,50. 
8. C. liarred Hocks, 9o each ; per 600, *42.50. 
8. C. R. I. lteds, lOe each ; per 500, #4 7.50, 
Mixed Chicks, 7c each; per 600, #82.50 100* live delivery. 
Postpaid. Order from this adv. or write for free circular. 
F. B. LEISTER McAllsterville. Pa. 
BABY O? HICKS ftp-fig 
horns, $B— 100. B.Rocks, $10. R. I. Reds. $10. Mixed. 
$7. Live arrival guaranteed. Delivered free. 
FAIRVIEW POULTRY FARM R. 0. 3 Millerstown. Pa. 
S.G. White Leghorn Pullets ” arch and April hatched. 
Raised oil free range. 
From heavy layers* 
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PH DUCKS 
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$5 per 12 eggs, Postpaid. Prompt shipment. Fer¬ 
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