HOUSE AND GARDEN 
502 
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UNE, 1913 
Never mind what the old home was BUILT of —you can 
PUT A CYPRESS SLEEPING PORCH ON IT 
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Do You Live Here? 
You know that style 
of bow window — 
with a tin roof and a 
railing—but not big 
enough to get out on? 
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and see just what to 
do to fix it up like this. 
Or Does This Fit Better? 
Cut two extra windows 
on the first floor, put 
in diamond panes (in 
Cypress sash) and you'll 
shortly produce this. 
ASK FOR THAT VOL. 35 
and you’ll find Full Detail 
Plans and Specifications. 
Or This Classic Loggia ? 
How this chaste, yet rich 
entrance would embellish 
the old brick homestead (or 
the woodenone)! Every stick 
of it Cypress — of course. 
IT’S IN VOL. 35 
with Specifications and 
Complete Working Drawings. 
ABOVE ARE BUT THREE OF THE SIX THAT ARE FREE 
in the internationally famous (fact) Vol. 35 of the CYPRESS POCKET LIBRARY 
-—the Authoritative and Indispensable Reference Work for all well-ordered Home 
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door to be pushed open from either side 
and when released to immediately swing 
back into position. Doors 2 ft. wide and 
6 ft. high are large enough for the aver¬ 
age problem. The windows should be 
numerous on all sides, and blinds, like 
those usually prescribed for the cow barn, 
are desirable during the summer. The 
protection of the fowl in winter by drop¬ 
ping a curtain enclosing the roosts is a 
good thing, but a little heat throughout 
the entire house is probably better, though 
this should mean more ventilation, not 
less. In the killing-room a dozen small 
coops are placed in which to confine the 
chickens preparatory to that operation. 
All roosts, nests, etc., should be removable 
for easy cleaning. All dust projections 
should be eliminated, and the old-fash¬ 
ioned whitewash for interior finish is as 
good as anything. The plans of the 
Brokaw chicken house were designed to 
meet, if possible, all objections. Skylights 
were put in the southern slope of the roof 
to give additional sunshine in the pens in 
the winter and also to afford better venti¬ 
lation at all times. In the front of each 
pen is a door 2 ft. 4 in. wide, the remain¬ 
ing space being taken up by a large win¬ 
dow ; the sash, divided in the center, is 
arranged to open in half or entire. By 
this means the chicken house may be read¬ 
ily converted into the “Open Front” type 
— from all accounts a very good one. By 
closing all the windows and doors, it may 
he made at once into the tightest kind of a 
“Tight Front” type—from all accounts a 
very bad one. but still desired by some. 
The north wall is well ventilated by good- 
sized windows, which should be left open 
throughout the summer, though they sel¬ 
dom are. The usual manner of arrang¬ 
ing the roosts and nests is shown in the 
center of page 483. the nests and the drop¬ 
ping-boards being accessible from the pas¬ 
sageway. Below it is a photograph of the 
interior. 
For the small plant the commercial out¬ 
door brooder is the best. For the larger 
scheme the brooder building is a satisfac¬ 
tory structure, and the plan shown at the 
top (right) of page 483 illustrates the 
usual type. The important thing in the 
brooder house is to separate completely 
the cellar for the incubators from the cel¬ 
lar in which is placed the boiler. It is im¬ 
possible to prevent the coal gas escaping 
from the boiler and the fumes of imperfect 
combustion are harmful to the hatching 
egg. An independent, well-ventilated cel¬ 
lar, which shall have no entrance except 
through the outside air, must be provided 
for the incubators. In the plan, this cellar 
is under the end of the building. The store 
room is a very desirable room to be had 
in connection with either the chicken or 
brooder house. In connection with the 
chicken houses at Skylands, a separate 
storage shed has been provided. For the 
chicken farm a good-sized storage place is 
necessary for outdoor brooders and' hovers 
which are out of season, to say nothing of 
extra coops and shipping-boxes and that 
inevitable accumulation of things which 
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