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Title: Side line poultry keeping : "two dollars a day from poultry and eggs"
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Warren, Edgar, 1858-
Subjects: Poultry Eggs Production
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : C.C. DePuy
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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where the unit is the individual brooder wouldseem to be what is wanted in the poultry world. My friend, Mr. O. P. Barton of Seabrook, X. H., has de-vised such a system, and when its merits are known it islikely to supersede all others. A description of this systemwill be worth many times the price of this book to anyoneinterested in artificial incubation and brooding. Mr. Barton has lately built a new brooding house in whichhis ideas are more fully worked out than in previous ones, andI feel that I can best explain the system by describing the newbrooder house both outside and inside. The brooder house shown in the cut is 16x40 feet, andruns north and south. It has five-foot posts, and the heightfrom the sill to the apex of the double roof is 10 feet. Thesills are of 4x6 stuff, but all the studding, plates, rafters, etc.,are 2x4. The floor is of earth. The building is covered onthe roof, sides and ends with a patent roofing. What impresses one most about the building when he sees 43
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44 it for the first time is the number of windows. I dont knowwhether Mr. Barton is a member of the Masonic fraternity ornot, but he certainly believes in light. There is nothing sogood for chicks as sunshine, he says. There are 19 windowsin the house, if I have counted right—four on each side, fouron each side of the roof, two in front, and one in the rear.The side windows are half • windows, each with six panes10x18; the roof windows are each four feet ten inches long bytwo feet eight inches wide; the front and rear windows arealso of generous size. Opening the door in the south end one steps inside, andif the season is winter the transformation is remarkable, forwe are in a place where sunshine, warmth and life hold car-nival. Running the whole length of the house is a centralwalk or aisle, a little over five feet wide. At the north endthere is a stove, in which, however, fire is kept only in themost Arctic weather. On both sides of the aisle there are twotiers of shelves, whic

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