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MEADQUABTERS. 



A good office desk and several chairs, perhaps a table 

 and possibly a typewriter will equip the manager's office 

 nicely. 



If the building contains sleeping rooms for the 

 poultrymani or assistants these are furnished with beds, 

 chairs, wash-stands etc. according to their requirements. 



FEED HOUSE AND WORK SHOP. 



Bins for holding supplies of feeds may be made of 

 hemlock planks or if made of other wood may be 

 lined with galvanized iron and provided with covers so 

 that rats and mice shall not take toll. If these storage 

 bins are placed in the upper story, metal or wooden 

 shutes may be made to conduct the feed stuffs from bins 

 to feed room as this saves labor. Tight strong barrels, 

 fitted with close covers will answer for the storage of 

 feed stuffs for a small flock of fowls. 



In the feed room an iron or wooden trough will be 

 handy for use in mixing dry feeds for the hoppers or 

 wet crashes if these are fed to the fowls. 



A set boiler will be useful for heating water, boiling 

 vegetables, etc. 



Buckets, shovels, etc., should be at hand and each 

 have' a place of its own, in which to keep it when not in 

 actual use. 



The work room may have a complete outfit of carpen- 

 ter tools and a cabinet in which to keep them. 



Benches, vices and other appliances for use in work- 

 ing wood and iron will be provided according to the 

 purpose of the poultryman. 



A tool-room may well be set apart in this building 

 and furnished with shovels, hoes, rakes, hand or horse 

 cultivator and any other implements desired for use in 

 caring for the poultry plant. 



INCUBATOR CELLAR. The furnishings for the room or 

 house to be devoted to artificial hatching will include an 

 outfit of incubators, an egg tester, a table and a chair. 

 The tank for oil to supply the incubator lamps should 



