The Corning Egg Farm is much opposed to what is known as the Double Brooder House, which is advocated by many builders of Brooder House equipments, and, in which, in the majority of cases, the use of concrete floors is also practiced. The advantages in the supposed economy of this construction are more than off-set by the disadvantages. The proper place for the windows of the Brooder House is on the south front, and likewise the south side of the building is the proper place for the chick runs. The roof should be a shed roof sloping to the north, thus carrying all the water to the back and allowing none of it to drip down into the runs. The north side of the Brooder House should be absolutely tight, for, from this quarter, comes the great majority of cold storms, and the tight wall means an economy in fuel. And every item of expense must be carefully watched on a poultry farm. In these different respects let us look at the double house. First, it must run north and south; second, it must have windows on the east and west, and the chick runs must go the same way; third, it must be built with a peaked roof, the drippings from storms thus falling directly into the yards. Must Drain Chick Runs In the Corning plan of Brooder House the yards are sloped toward the south, and, as there is no possibility of dripping from the roof, in a few moments after a hard storm the slope and the sun combined put the yards at once into a usable condition, so that the youngsters can be let out. All day long in this style Brooder House the yellow babies enjoy the sunshine. In the double constructed Brooder House the yards are bathed on the east side with sunshine for a short time, and the west side receives the Sun for a few hours before sunset. Concrete Floors Mean Dampness An added menace in this double style of construction is the concrete floor generally used. It is almost impossible, with the greatest care and forethought, to produce a piece of concrete which does not constantly take up and give off moisture, and one thing to be absolutely avoided in poultry houses, little or big, is dampness. The dollars saved in the construction of double houses are usually dollars which would have been made ten times over by the expenditure necessary to build a proper house. The chick yards on The Corning Egg Farm are sloping, and are twenty feet long, and correspond in width with the hover runs inside the house, which vary from three to four feet in width. The diameter of the hover varies with the size of the run, from 26 to 30 inches. The sloping runs of the Brooder yards are covered with Anthracite Coal ashes, which have been found to entirely eliminate the much talked of danger of contamination of soil, the surface being constantly renewed as the ashes are consumed by the chicks.