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tions for brooder chicks, laying 

 flocks, breeding pens, etc. There are 

 few large poultry farms, however, 

 that do not require a large, central- 

 ly located house where feeds and 

 miscellaneous supplies can be stored 

 and in or about which can conveni- 

 ently be grouped facilities that are 

 necessary for efficiently administer- 

 ing the work of the farm. Generally 

 such a building should be planned on 

 a sufficiently large scale to provide 

 ample storage on the ground floor, 

 with a room for killing and dressing 

 table fowls. A basement will afford 

 room for incubators at much less 

 than the construction of a sepa- 

 rate building for this special purpose. 

 A second floor will provide comfort- 

 able quarters for one or more of the 

 men employed on the place, and an 

 extension may be added on one side 

 for a long brooder house to be 

 equipped with lamp-heated hovers, 

 colony hovers or a hot-water pipe 

 brooding system. On the other side 

 an extension for crate feeding table 

 fowls will be found most convenient 

 when these are to be produced in 

 considerable .numbers. 



Such an administration house is 

 illustrated and described on this and 



FIG. 164 CELLAR FLOOR PLAN IN ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 





following pages. It is large enough to meet the require- 

 ments of quite an extensive farm and needs only to be 

 reduced proportionately all round to adapt it to a much 

 smaller place. Any competent carpenter will be able 



readily to make the needed changes and adapt the bill 

 of materials to les er proportions. 



Fig. 164 give/! the floor plan of the incubator cellar 

 which is large enough to accommodate 20 to 30 large- 

 sized lamp-heate, . incubators, or two mammoths if they 

 are preferred. ' Vhere extra-large hatching capacity is 

 required, th^ cellar can be extended under the fattening 

 room, thus doubling its size. The ventilation of this cellar 

 is not indicated in drawing but the plan shown on page 

 79 should be followed. Build the intake flues into the 

 concrece or stone foundation wall, however, thus mak- 

 ing them practically indestructible. Where there is no 

 sewerage system available it will be necessary to provide 

 a cesspool or septic tank outside the building to take 

 the waste from the killing room, men's toilet, etc., and 



FIG.165 SIDE ELEVATION OF ADMINISTRATION BUILDING FOR LARGE POULTRY FARM 



