. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). i84 Bulletin ro^.* 1^ ^^Aif «^ ? ^-^^ «^ Fig. 63. -The liovcr and heater drum raised. heater. It was not fire proof, did not supply sufficient heat, was a cumber- some hot water system, too ex- pensive to make, and therefore, was abandoned. However, the idea of using a blue flame gaso- line burning lamp without wick to trim or lamp to fill e:\ch day, was attrac- tive. White & Rice, therefore, adapted the gasoline
. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). i84 Bulletin ro^.* 1^ ^^Aif «^ ? ^-^^ «^ Fig. 63. -The liovcr and heater drum raised. heater. It was not fire proof, did not supply sufficient heat, was a cumber- some hot water system, too ex- pensive to make, and therefore, was abandoned. However, the idea of using a blue flame gaso- line burning lamp without wick to trim or lamp to fill e:\ch day, was attrac- tive. White & Rice, therefore, adapted the gasoline burner to the heating of ordinary outdoor brooders by using a heater invented by C. S. Menges of York- town, N. Y. The heater was the one then being used in home-made brooders, heated with kerosene lamps. The experiment was successful in so far as it saved labor and fur- nished a high heat, but it was not fire proof. The penalty of the experi- ment was several expensive fires. It was quickly seen that heat was being wasted in the small brooders containing 50 chickens each and that much heat could be saved by building colony houses 6x8 feet and fur- nishing the same amount of heat to two flocks of 50 chickens each from the same burner and heater under a divided hover. This plan worked so satisfactorily that the partition separating the two flocks was removed for subsequent hatches as an experiment, and it was found that one flock of 100 chickens running together did as well or better than the two flocks of 50 chickens each. A very large hatch later in the season when press of work prevented the building of more colony houses, compelled the putting of 200 chickens under one enlarged hover. These chickens apparently did as well as those kept in flocks of 100. As a result of this experience all of the colony houses were fitted with large hovers for 200 chickens and the outdoor brooders were entirely abandoned. By this method of rearing chickens in large flocks in colony houses h
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