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February  24,  192?, 
Dr.  Hess  Instant  Louse 
1  spent  SO 
years  in  perfect¬ 
ing  Pan-a-ce-a. 
Gilbert  Hess 
M.D..  D.V.S. 
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PAN-A-CE-A 
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THE  HENYARD 
Dimensions  of  Brooder  House 
I  am  building  chicken-house  12x60  ft., 
and  want  to  add  a  brooder-house.  I  have 
a  brooder  with  canopv  52  in.  in  diameter 
to  take  care  of  about  1.000  chicks.  What 
size  brooder-house  would  be  advisable,  and 
how  near  the  main  building  can  I  build 
with  safety  to  the  chicks?  A.  E.  B. 
Ardsley,  N.  Y. 
If  you  haven’t  gone  too  far  with  it  to 
make  a  change  in  dimensions  feasible, 
make  your  poultry-house  at  least  18  ft. 
deep;  20  would  be  better.  The  narrow 
houses  cost  more  to  build  than  deep  ones 
having  the  same  floor  space,  more  ma¬ 
terial  being  required  iu  the  walls,  and 
they  are  not  as  comfortable  for  the  occu¬ 
pants.  With  open-front  ventilation  in 
practically  universal  use,  the  long,  nar¬ 
row  houses'  have  gone  out  of  vogue ; 
18x40,  or  20x86  is  far  better  than  12x60. 
A  movable  brooder-house  is  better  than 
a  fixed  one,  and  1.000  chicks  are  too  many 
to  keep  in  one  flock,  even  if  you  can 
well  get  that  number  of  the  same  age. 
Two  8x12  portable  houses,  each  with  a 
stove  for  500-chick  capacity,  will  give 
you  better  results  than  a  large  building 
designed  to  hold  1.000  chicks,  though  you 
can  place  a  larger  number  in  any  size 
of  building  that  you  care  to  put  up.  It 
would  be  still  better  to  divide  a  flock  of 
1.000  chicks-  into  three,1  and  give  each 
flock  a  separate  building.  Chicks  of  dif¬ 
ferent  ages  should  not  be  placed  together, 
and  the  smaller  the  flock  the  better  the 
opportunities  for  equal  and  satisfactory 
development.  If  you  have  land  upon 
which  to  move  brooder-houses  about,  don’t 
build  a  permanent  house  near  the  quar¬ 
ters  of  the  old  fowls.  M.  B.  D. 
Stone  Henhuose 
Will  you  tell  me  the  advantages  and 
disadvantages  of  a  henhouse  built  of  stone, 
or  at  least  three  sides  stone,  the  front 
being  frame  and  glass?  H. 
Homer  City,  Pa. 
If  the  poultry-house  can  be  built  more 
cheaply  of  stone,  that,  of  course,  is  one 
advantage,  and  if  the  artistic  effect  of 
stone  is  desired,  that  would  be  another  ; 
it  is  a  common  belief,  however,  that  a 
stone  building  is  colder  and  more  damp 
in  the  Winter  than  one  of  wood,  and  cold 
and  dampness  are  not  to  be  desired  in  a 
building  for  fowls.  While,  I  have  had  no 
personal  experience  with  stone  buildings. 
I  am  inclined  to  think  that  there  is  some 
reason  iu  this  objection.  Stones,,  of  course, 
are  not  colder  than  wood  when  exposed  to 
the  same  temperature,  but  they  are  better 
conductors  of  heat,  and  so  feel  colder, 
and  I  see  no  reason  why  they  should  not 
dissipate  what  animal  heat  may  be  de¬ 
rived  from  the  bodies  of  the  fowls  more 
rapidly  than  wood,  and  thus  actually 
make  a  colder  interior.  At  any  rate, 
moisture  condenses  in  the  form  of  “frost” 
upon  stone  walls  more  readily  than  it  does 
upon  wood,  and  it  would  require  better 
ventilation  to  keep  them  dry. 
On  the  other  hand,  poultry -houses  are 
often  built  of  concrete  blocks  and  of  hol¬ 
low  tiles,  and  are  found  very  satisfactory. 
Such  walls  have  air  spaces  in  the  blocks, 
and  these  doubtless  help.  Without  more 
definite  knowledge  of  the  subject  than  I 
now  possess,  my  preference  would  be  for 
wooden  walls,  and  I  should  expect  a  poul¬ 
try-house  built  with  them  to  be  more 
easily  kept  dry  and  comfortable.  If  any 
of  our  readers  know  that  a  stone  building, 
properly  ventilated,  is  as  satisfactory  as 
a  wooden  one.  we  should  be  glad  to  have 
them  tell  us  about  it.  M.  B.  D. 
Elevated  Poultry-house 
I  am  thinking  of  building  henhouse 
50  ft.  long.  18  ft.  wide,  no  foundation, 
just  posts  2  ft.  from  ground  ;  board  floor, 
glass  on  three  sides  at  bottom ;  use  a 
scratching  pen  underneath  the  house.  I 
would  like  to  know  what  the  lumber  for 
this  would  cost ;  also  do  you  think  this 
a  good  plan?  I  have  one  of  this  kind 
now ;  small,  but  had  satsfaetory  results. 
Teaneek.  N.  J.  k.  a.  c. 
I  see  no  occasion  for  glass  in  three 
sides  of  such  a  poultry-house,  as  if  it 
faces  the  south,  or  south  aud  east,  plenty 
of  light  and  air  can  be  secured  from  one 
side  and  the  other  three  may  be  airtight 
for  wai’mth. 
If  you  have  a  small  boy  in  the,  family 
who  can  crawl  under  the  building  for 
eggs,  a  height  of  2  ft.  from  the  ground 
would  be  satisfactory.  A  building  on 
posts  has  the  advantage  of  permitting  cats 
or  a  dog  to  keep  rats  from  living  there, 
the  disadvantage  of  making  a  catch-all 
for  rubbish,  and,  of  course,  no  opportunity 
offered  to  renew  the  earth  after  it  be¬ 
comes  soiled  or  infected  by  long  use. 
I  cannot  advise  you  as  to  the  cost  of 
such  a  building,  since  this  depends  en¬ 
tirely  upon  how  elaborate  you  wish  to 
make  it  and  what  material  and  labor  cost 
locally.  If  you  wish  a  simple  building  for 
utility  only,  it  may  cost  much  less  than 
one  built  to  ornament  the  landscape. 
M.  B.  D. 
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