54 BROILERS AND ROASTERS. 



I think the smallest I have seen were six by eight feet on 

 the ground, and these were used for colonies of fifty chicks 

 from nearly half grown to full grown in size. 



31 . Feed and Cook House. Whether a special build- 

 ing is to be used for these purposes, is a question to be 

 decided according to the circumstances in each case. Often 

 it is more convenient to use a part of another building for 

 a feed storage and cook room. One end of a brooder 

 house may be appropriated for the purpose, or a room 

 built over the incubator cellar or in connection with it. 

 When supplies are bought as used, only a few days' or 

 weeks' supply being kept on hand, large space is not 

 required. On some quite large plants sheds having onl} 

 a hundred to a hundred and fifty square feet of floor space 

 are found amply large for cooking and for such supplies of 

 stuffs to be cooked as are kept on hand, while other sup- 

 plies are kept in, any suitable and convenient place. As 

 the reader will infer from such a statement, the successful 

 plant of today is generally one that has grown slowly from 

 small beginnings, and many of its appointments are of a 

 makeshift character, a fact in no way counting against 

 them, provided they answer their purpose as well as most 

 of them do. On some of the plants of more pretentious 

 beginnings, and on some of the long established farms that 

 have had to replace their original buildings, commodious 

 and well appointed buildings for storage, cooking, cutting 

 hay, vegetables and bone, buildings in fact which provide 

 for everything not included in the stock buildings are to be 

 found, but the requirements for such buildings are so vari- 

 ous that it would not be profitable to devote space to them 

 in a small book of this class. Their dimensions, arrange- 



