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C. F. Thompson & Co.'s 'Poultry 'Plant 

 Scale, 1-8O inch to the foot; 



A, B, C, stock houses, long houses with walks, brooder house in east end of C; 



is a large yard, used, as a rule, for :i breeding pen. On the otber side of Grove street is a 

 pasture used for a few broods of chicks iu the early part of the season, and later for pullets, 

 these being housed through the summer in slatted front roosting coops placed in a row under 

 the trees near the street with intervals of about 100 ft. between the coops. 



Hr. Bright's Farm Plant. 



On the home plant Mr. Bright had to make the buildings and yards fit the space available, but 

 on the thirty-five acre farm, less than half a mile away, he bad ample room for whatever sort 

 of building equipment he might want. The beginning of the poultry plant on this farm wa 

 the 200 ft. house A, with cook and feed house attached. 



This house faces squarely south. It is ID ft. wide, and contains 19 pens 10 ft. wide 

 by 11 ft. deep. The passage in the rear of the pens is 4ft. wide. The cook and feed house is just 

 bark of the west end of this house, and consists of one room 20 ft. square, in which are the 

 cooker, bone cutter, pump, etc., an L, 12 x 20 ft., containing the feed bins, and a lean-to 8 ft. 

 wide, in which is the boiler. At the east end of the 200 ft. house is a shed for manure. 



The arrangement of yards here is similar to that on the plant first described, except that the 

 large yards are longer, and there are more of them. The yards next the house, coi re- 

 sponding to the pens inside are 10 ft. wide by 30 it. long. The general plan is a large yard 

 for every two of these, just the width of two yards, and 120ft. long. The last long yard is 

 irregular. As the number of small yards is uneven, it is made the width of three small yard-. 

 There are grape vines iu the small yards running up over the division fences and affording fine 

 shade. The large yards are set with fruit trees. 



About 200 ft. back of the house A is a scratching shed house B, 126 ft. in length. This house 

 was made from part of an old barn and some other out buildings, and is of such irregular 

 construction that I did not attempt an accurate diagram not thinking that a matter of 

 special importance In this connection. There are about twice as many pens as yards, some 

 having scratching sheds, and some small pens having none. These small pens are used mostly 

 as accessory to the large pens, or for sitters or extra males. The yards in front are 72 ft. 

 deep, and of varying widths, the narrowest being 26 ft. ; the widest 35 ft. 



