Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-10-02

; Mans Response to Natures Needs.
/ The average chicken house to-day is
similar to that of two generations ago.
The home of the human family has
been m~Odernized, which is more than
beng made convenient. The varied
needs of mans life are met in the
adaptability of the 2~0th-century home.
The play, nj work rooms, the eating,
n sleeping apartments are natural
responses to the demands of human
nature. Life has a larger expression
when all the channels of development
are provided for. Likewise the chick
en- house should be a esponse to the
eutire nature of the fowl.
Ninetey per cent of the chicken
J houses now built bear marks of the
tallow candle age. Chicken men have
begun to realize it. We are tabulating
ment" is the efficiency test in chicken
raising as it is in other industrise.
The ordinary chicken house is high
enough to have two and three times
the floor space provided. This would
divide the cost of housing at least by
two; and at the same time furnish
normal exercise, and a natural retreat
for the shy and exclusive birds.
The hen which is well provided fol-
will spend one fourth the day in the
dust. This for her is bath, exercise,
} play, and her means of freezing herself
from the devializing parasites which
l constantly come unseen. The entire
l flock can not dust in a small box at the
) same time-yet they are all ready for
= this most natural function at the same
5 hours of the day. The entire ground
: floor should be devoted to busting, pro-
e Viding at least two and a half square
feet 20 each hen. The truth of these
n s. statements have been proven to me in
e experiments which l have conducted
. in my back yard at David City, Ne
braska.
e The laws of physics teach the simple
: naxims regarding ABSORPTION and re-
y diation of the light and heat rays. why
. cut off the rays of the sun by refrac-
ton when the direct rays may be
transmitted or absorbed by windows
If End roof especially during he seven
e dark, cold or damp months of the
u, YEAR. The practical, 2Oth-century
l. house has it's roof and windows set to
IS catch the direct light and heat rays OF
g the sun. Heat comes when heat Is
lie needed. Light is had when h days
e arc all too short for h Gull capacity
of the great reproducing machines.
d With the feeding floor above the
e scratching foor the hens hop easily
lie and frequently back and forth, anc
l. have a normal exercise.
t. 1t is only the de-natured fowl Whlcf
e does not choose seclusion in all It's &C
ic t%Ivities, as we'll as in placing its egg
The hen is the most easily excited O
t the domestic animals. Like the WIG
a. bird she performs the natural func
he tions of her life always alert for an IN
n corruption. Necessity only can cause
he her to ignore this nature-given law o
n her being. Hence, all the floors of he
rs house should be private to her, as ar
the rooms of the owners home to him
On The day of the automatic trap nets
has come, hence it a floor Il
70, oeet the necessary demands. VINE
o I the eggs is layed the hen passe
through to the rear of the floor Wher'
In she can begin feeding again with n
es loss of time. When the attendan
comes the lens which have layed ar
within reach from the drop doors q
the rear of the coop, and the RECORDING
egg gathering, and releasing OF tn
hens are easily done. At the sam
side of the house the cleaning OF tn
.ir fourth or roosting floor is a small maj
ter.
lie These are facts, and by a comparisoI
between the four-story house and on
ht of the best two story houses of an Ole
re err style-one is forced to wonder a
the conclusions-waiting the gradua
Id unfolding in the evolution of the poul
r. +rvrnan Robert A. Harrison in South
Nv ern Poultry Review.