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Here is a Department Full of Bright Ideas For Readers of the Home and Farm Magazine Section.
given as a rule, but to indicate what ws
for the cement floor. In wet or damp will give this protection and will not should expect in this regard. To illus­
shade
much
of
the
floor
space.
I
t
must
surroundings evaporation is continually
trate further, the total cost of a
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taking place, and evaporation is a cool­ extend as high as possible so that the colony house should seldom exceed
Byron Alder, of the Utah
ing process, so that the temperature will sun will go to the back of the pen. The thirty dollars, and it will accom­
Agricultural Experiment Station,
be kept down. Then hen's feet will be direct rays of the sun not only make the modate under usual conditions about
furnishes a comprehensive article
wet and muddy. This means fewer eggs house warmer but keep the interior dry fifty hens of the smaller and forty of
on the housing of farm poultry.
and are the best of disinfectants and
and many dirty ones.
germicides that we know. ’I hey aid ma the larger breeds, making a cost in ths
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Ventilation — Fresh air without terially in preventing disease. I cry one rase of sixty cents per hen, and id
the other seventy five cents per hen.
draughts is the next important consid­
ITH the exception, perhaps of ac­ eration. In the past warmth was the big mueh glass space is undesirable, not
By following the ideas suggested
alone because of the additional expense
tual starvation of tho fowls them­ object sought, and many houses were and breakage, but it is estimated that above, a number of houses could be
selves, there is no other factor in built with little or no ventilation pro­
glass allows abont four times as much planned that would no doubt be en­
connection with tho keeping of poultry vided for, or the openings that were pro­
heat to escape from the building as tirely satisfactory.
that will affect egg production and good vided caused draughts; now if we are
vigorous growth so decidedly as poor not more careful in planning the house, the ordinary board wall. In this re­
or improper methods of housing. This the open front will be carried to the spect it is not much better than the
circular sets forth some of the essen­ other extreme, as has been done already muslin curtain, and on sunny days the
curtain may be raised to allow the sun s
tials of a good house for Utah condi in some instances. No rule can be given rays to enter without reflection in any
tions, and offers plans of three houses as to just how much space should be
in which an attempt has been made to left open in the front of the house, as direction.
I t seems to be more or less a fanlt
Include these essentials. The ideas and that depends on the typo of the house
No. 1.
plans presented here do not represent and somewhat on local conditions. One in human nature that those tasks are
H e esaw to u s som ewhat nn certsio
more
often
neglected
that
are
a
littlo
■a to his future, but quickly r.sw his
any one person’s original work. They very important feature of all open front
opportunity when shown w het th s
■re a compilation of the work done on houses is that during the severe cold out of our way, or are a little difficult
B ehnke W alker B ueiness CoUe»e coaid
this subject by those who have preceded weather the other three sides of the to get at. There is no animal around the
do for him.
the writer in charge of the work at this house must be perfectly tight. To secure yard that responds more quickly to kind,
BUSINESS COLLEGE
sympathetic
and
regular
treatment
than
station, and suggestions that have come this these three sides should be con
Fourth Near Morrison. Portland. Ore.
does
the
hen.
The
poultry
house
should
from a study of the types of houses structed of matched lumber and lined
I. M. WALKER. Pre«.
recommended and in use in different either outside or inside, preferably the not be located, as it too often is, after
W e hare enrolled 1030 students sine»
the first of August, 1913.
parts of the country.
latter, with good heavy building paper.. all other buildings, sheds and yards are
The double wall with a dead air space planned, and then find that there is
The Colony or Stationary House.
room out behind the barn or some other
There are two systems in common use is not neicssary and is undesirable. It out of the way place for the chicken
offers
protection
and
a
breeding
place
throughout the country. Tho colony or
house. Much of the work in caring for
free range system in which the fowls are for mice, rats, mitesl etc., and adds
I. M WALKER, President
the fowls is done by the women or is
kept in small flocks, housed in small considerably to the expense of the not done at all, and therefore, the house
Portland. Oregon.
movable houses, and the permanent yard building, in the hottest part of tho
Writ« us. No trouble to answer.
system in which the fowls are more or
less closely confined and the house is
built in such a way, or of such material,
that it is stationary. The colony sys
tem is admirably adapted to farm con
ditions where only from two to three
hundred hens are to be kept. Where the
fowls are kept in larger numbers than
this considerable time is required to go
from house to house to feed or gather
the eggs. The advantages are, however,
in being able to move the house from
place to place about tho farm or yard,
thus giving the fowls fresh ground and
pasture and utilizing space which at
certain times could or would not be
used for other purposes. The soil is less
likely to become filthy and contami
nated with disease. Where the soil on
which these houses are kept is of
sandy or gravelly character, with good
underdrainage, there is no need of floors
in the colony houses, and the problems
of cleaning and keeping tbo surround
ings fresh and sweet are reduced to !
minimum, since ail that is necessary is
to hitch a horse to the houso and take
LAKENVELDER FOWLS.
it off a short distance to fresh ground
The Lakenvelder has not as yet be« accorded a place in the American stand
leaving all manure and filth behind. ard of perfection, bat in Europe it has rceived general recognition by poultry or
In winter the houses should be grouped ganizations. It is striking in appearance, much like a White LpShoru’J ‘t.1'
more or less closely together in a con vetv Black tail and hackle. The breed originated in Germany and is most i a llie d
venient place and the soil banked up for the production of white shelled eggs. It is said to be hardy and •
well around them before the ground is ager, picking up much of it» food if given a wide range. Adult males weigh
frozen too solid.
about five pounds; females, four pounds.
In the permanent house larger flocks
can be handled with less expense and ■summer an opening may be provided inland yards should be readily accessible
trouble, because of many conveniences one of the other sides, providing it is to them. All gates, doors and other fix
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l»r» be made -TS
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that may be provided for the general not located so that a draught
should
as S simple
as D pos­
would
sible yet securely fastened and easily
management of a large flock. Exceed strike the fowls while on the perches.
ing care should be exercised in clean
operated. There should be plenty of
Pure Air Required.
room to get insido the building. The
ing up the yards and houses, in keeping
While reasonably cold, pure fresh air nests, feed hoppers, etc., should be easily
the soil sweet and fresh by occasional
cultivation, and in preventing the spread is to be preferred to warm impure air, reached, so that cleaning and refilling
For Rats, Mice,
yet it should not bo forgotten that it is is mad- is easy as possible. It is some
of contagious diseases.
Squirrels, Etc.
Whether the colony ot the stationary the purity of the air and not the low times a« visable to arrange the nests so
temperature
that
is
desired.
The
more
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’EM IN A NIGHT.
that the eggs may be gathered without
house is used, the problems to be con­
sidered in planning the house are very surface there is exposed in the walls going into the house.
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much the same. These may for conven and roof of a house the greater will be
Protection From Vermin.
1004 Broadway Building,
the loss ot heat, other things being
fence be divided into four groups.
The house should-not be located close
Portland, Oregon.
equal. For this reason it is not desirable
Health and Comfort of the Fowls.
t- extend the walls higher than is neces­ to the grainery, barn or other buildings
Dryness—The first essential of the sary to allow sufficient room in the where grain is stored that afford breed
house itself to insure health and vigor, house for the attendant to move about ing places for mice and rats, to prey
is freedom from moisture. Since the freely without continually bumping bis upon the fowls. The building should be
house must be kept dry it must be lo head. The greatest vigor and produe made as tight as possible to exclude all
eated in a dry place. A gentle slope to tion cannot be eecured if the fowls ara such enemies. All nests, perches, etc.,
the south with a porous soil and good air required to breathe impure or very cold and the interior surface of the house
drainage is ideal. In many places it will air. Early spring condition, when we itself should be as smooth and free from
Let him play in overalb
with never a care in the
not be possible to get the ideal, so that have our highest egg production, should cracks and unnecessary corners as pos
world and you will make
some provision must be made to keep be the air in this regard both winter sible. The internal fixtures should be
him a healthy, happy boy.
the moisture out of the house. A good and summer. Plenty of fresh air with a solid, yet easily taken out to clean and
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floor well up from the surface of the moderate temperature, and good, clean, disinfect.
ground is about the best we can do. A nutritive food brings high production in
Two-Horse Brand
Many who have gone into the busi
concrete floor, under which is placed s
ness of poultry raising have failed be
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eggS
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■ix or eight inch layer of fine gravel
Sunlight, the third essential for cause of the lack of consideration of
T
h
e
kind
that is mad*
or broken stone, will keep out the mois
this factor in connection with the
for comfort and long wear.
ture and will be more eneily cleaned and healthful, vigorous stock must bo pro poultry houses. It is neeessary of course
kept in a sanitary condition than the vided for in a good chicken house, i or to make a building as permanent and
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dirt floor. Many prefer the dirt floor, this reanon the open front haa become substantial as the local conditions de
however, because of cost, nnd if six very popular and the house should al mand, yet buildings of this nature need
or eight inches of dirt are placed on top way* face to the south. The opening not be elaborate in construction or of
of the stone after a thin layer of cin­ should not be too low or the snow and expensive materials. Except, perhaps,
ders or other fine material covers the rain will drift in and dampen the litter, in special eases, the cost of the house
stone, it does fairly well and will usual­ and the fowls should be protected from should not exceed one dollar and n
ly be dry; but the dirt must be replaced the cold wind while at work on the quarter for each fowl that it will ac
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occasionally by freso soil and tbs coot floor Two to three feet from the eoounodate when complete. This is not
■f keeping it ib condition will soon pay ground to the bottom of the opening
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