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POULTRY BREEDING IN 



Fig. 22. General Plan of Buildings. 



twelve hundred homes for poultry. (See fig. 22.) Then a 

 building on each end, joining the six buildings, and which 

 will be used for artificial hatching, stores, and all neces- 

 sary offices. The cost of the whole will be about three 

 thousand pounds. An uninterrupted covered communi- 

 cation is thus had with every part of the establishment, 

 and the whole forms a quadrangle. 



BIRD'S-EYE VIEW AND SECTION OF A POULTRY- 

 BREEDING ESTABLISHMENT. 



In giving a description of the above plan for a poultry- 

 breeding establishment, I feel compelled to notice certain 

 observations on my system which appeared in a sporting 

 paper. From beginning to end I clearly stated that I do 

 not consider it possible to breed poultry profitably in 

 large numbers on the present system, whatever care 

 might be taken in a sanitary point of view ; also that arti- 

 ficial hatching is quite of a secondary consideration, only 



