HOUSE AND GARDEN 
194 
October, 
1914 
Conducted by E.K.Parki nson 
The purpose of this department is to give advice to those interested 
in poultry . The manager will gladly answer any troublesome 
questions . Address ** Poultry Department 99 and enclose a self- 
addressed envelope . 
Hodgson Portable Poultry Houses 
Five-Section Poultry House— 
10x50 ft. 
Sanitary, durable, up-to-date—made of red cedar, clap- 
boarded outside, interior sheathed. Made in 10-ft sec¬ 
tions. each fitted with roosts, nests and fountain. Open 
fronts, with canvas-covered frames. You can add sec¬ 
tions at any time. Easily erected. 
No. 0 Colony Laying House— 
fnr 19 hpIK Fitted complete with nests, fountain 
IOI Hi Ilclla and feed trough. Sanitary — easily 
cleaned. One man can easily care for several hundred 
birds. Nicely painted—set up in fifteen minutes. A 
comfortable year-round house. In 
stormy weather the run may be 
covered, giving a protected 
scratching room. Size, 10x4 ft., 5 ft. 
high. 
$ 20 — 
E. F. HODGSON CO. 
Send for catalogue. 
VUitour ("ROOM 326, 116 WASHINGTON ST. BOSTON. MASS! 
Bhowrooms \CRAFTSMAN BLDG., 6 EAST 39TH ST., NEW YORKJ 
Address all 
correspondence 
to Boston 
G. D. TILLEY 
Naturalist 
Beautiful Swans,FancyPheasants, 
Peafowl, Cranes, Storks, Orna¬ 
mental Ducks and Geese, Flam¬ 
ingoes, Game and Cage Birds 
“Everything in the bird line from 
Canary to an Ostrich” 
I am the oldest established and largest exclusive 
dealer in land and water birds in America and have 
on hand the most extensive stock in the United States 
G. D. TILLEY, Box H, Darien, Connecticut 
S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
High-class yearling breeders at reduced 
prices to make room for young stock. 
Send for Circular of Stock and Eggs. 
MAPLECROFT FARMS, PAWLING, N. Y. 
BoxG. 
Essentials in Poultry Houses 
T HE prime essentials in poultry 
houses are fresh air, dryness, sun¬ 
light, and space enough to keep the birds 
comfortable. No particular style of house 
is peculiarly adapted to any section of this 
country, but it is preferable to build more 
open and consequently less expensive 
houses in the South than in the North. The 
best site for the poultry house depends 
principally on the local conditions. The 
location should have good water and air 
drainage, so that the floor and yards will 
be dry, while the house should not occupy 
a low pocket or hollow in which cold air 
settles, and it should be situated for con¬ 
venience in management and adapted to 
the available land. Wherever possible a 
southern or southeastern exposure should 
be selected, although this is not essential 
if there is any good reason for facing the 
house in a different direction. 
Poultry can be raised successfully on 
any well-drained soil. A light loam, which 
will grow good grass, is well adapted for 
this purpose; while a very light, sandy 
soil, through which the water leaches 
freely, will stand more intensive poultry 
conditions, but most of the green feed for 
the fowls kept on such a soil will have 
to be purchased. A heavy clay or adobe 
soil is not as well adapted to poultry rais¬ 
ing, as such land does not drain readily 
and it is much more difficult to keep the 
stock healthy. Long stationary houses, or 
the intensive system, saves steps, hut it 
is easier to keep birds healthy and to repro¬ 
duce the stock under the colony system 
where the birds are allowed free range. 
Breeding stock, and especially growing 
chickens, should have an abundance of 
range, while hens used solely for the pro¬ 
duction of market eggs may be kept on a 
very small area with good results. The 
colony house system necessitates placing 
the houses, holding about ioo hens, from 
200 to 250 feet apart, so that the stock 
will not kill the grass. The colony system 
may be adapted to severe winter condi¬ 
tions by drawing the colony houses to¬ 
gether in a convenient place at the begin¬ 
ning of winter, thus reducing the labor 
during these months. 
War is going to be declared next month 
— on turkeys. Read the record of the 
King Fowl in November House and 
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