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CHAPTER VII. 



Pages 



PLANS FOR POULTRY FARMS 107-149 



How to plan and arrange a poultry farm 107 



How to succeed on five acres 107 



Feed houses 109, 134 



Laying houses Ill, 132, 138 



Killing and fattening room and incubator cellar 112 



Breeding house 114, 138 



Colony brooder house 115, 133 



Crops, rotation 107, 117 



Method of feeding 120 



How to proceed for first three years 122 



Cost of equipment and maintenance 125, 137 



Income first three years 125, 136 



Management of the ground 128 



Incubator and brooder house 135 



Stocking the farm 138 



Oat sprouter 140 



Sprouted oats 141 



It's the man that counts 142 



The breed of chickens 144 



Colony house and its use 144 



Poultry raising as a business 146 



Illustrations and plans for poultry farms 108, 123, 129, 143 



How I would start an egg farm 148 



Marketing products 148 



Piano box colony house 149 



CHAPTER VIII. 



POULTRY POINTERS AND APPLIANCES 150-172 



How to tell the laying hen 150 



Homemade lice powder 152 



Lice ointment 152 



To rid a house of mites 153 



How to prevent egg eating 153 



How to prevent feather eating 153 



How to prevent fighting 153 



How to prevent flying 154 



Faking 155 



Whitewash 155 



Preserving eggs 155 



How to prevent eggs from hatching 155 



How to tell the age of a fowl 156 



Catching hooks 156 



Feeding trays and troughs 157, 158 



Feed hoppers 158, 159 



Carrying box 160 



Poultry farm wagons 160 



Cockerel house 161 



Maine trap nest 162 



Connecticut trap nest 164 



Cornell trap nest 166 



Things worth knowing and remembering 168 



Salt for poultry 168 



Breaking up broody hens 168 



Shade for poultry 170 



Conditioning birds for the show room 171 



