CHAPTER VII. 



PLANS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR POULTRY FARMS. 



The suggestions which follow, while riot perfect or ideal, may be 

 a great help in planning and arranging your poultry farms or yards. 

 The successful poultry farm must grow three crops, a green crop, 

 a fruit crop and a poultry crop. If you can grow poultry in the corn, 

 tlu- chicks do best there. Corn, clover, cowpeas and fruit should be 

 rotated in such way as to provide shade, feed and fresh land each 

 year. Every poultry farm should have enough land to produce some 

 of the grain which is fed to the poultry. A small piece of ground will 

 grow an immense lot of feed if planted in mangel beets. Move the 

 chickens to fresh ground and sow the old yard with a mixture of rye 

 and oats or of rape. After these have grown several inches high 

 you may turn the poultry in if you wish. Don't neglect to cultivate 

 your yards and grow some of your own feed. 



HOW TO SUCCEED ON FIVE ACRES DEVOTED 

 TO POULTRY. 



(Frank E. Mixa, Ames, Iowa.) 



Dealing with No. 1 first, we enter off the public highway; going 

 about fifteen feet we enter through a twelve-foot gate ; the first thing 

 we notice on either side is a row of blackberries running to the bound- 

 ary fence; as we go up the driveway we pass a hedge of currants 

 on the right ; now we near the dwelling house, which we need not take 

 up any space to explain, except that it contains five rooms and a bath. 



Just beyond the house on either side of the driveway are planted 

 pear trees, ten feet from the driveway and twenty feet apart. 



The chick range is planted to apple trees, which are twenty feet 

 from fences and forty feet apart, thus enabling the ease of cultivating 

 the ground. 



We have now come to the barn and noticing on either side a gate 

 of twelve feet, we will pass through on the right side of the barn and 

 go down to the breeding pens. While on the way down we will notice 

 on the left the windmill (here there ought to be placed the pumping- 

 jack and engine room, if one were to put in a gasoline engine, then 

 the shafting could be run into the barn to run the minor machinery) 

 and on the right we notice the large capacious yard, running from 

 the breeding house, being ninety-six feet wide, that being the length 

 of the house, and one hundred feet long, planted to plum trees of a 

 recognized variety, which are planted twenty feet apart and twenty 

 feet from fences, thus leaving plenty of room for ease of cultivation. 



Next on the left is the feed room, and on the other side of that 

 is the water tower, which distributes water to the dwelling house, 

 barn, feed room, killing room, incubator cellar, breeding and laying 

 houses. 



The next building on the left is the "useful" house, or rather 

 where the incubator cellar is, the root and vegetable cellar, killing 

 room, fattening room, and in the third story is where brooders and 

 such like are stored, and down in the incubator cellar is a room for 

 the proper care of eggs. 



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