A TWO THOUSAND HLN PLANT. 



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at Lynnfield Center, Mass. 



1-16 inch equals .". feet. 



a, d, e, detached coops for liens and chicks, or for surplus stock ; b, c, and i, small houses. 



West of the bouse, with :i roadway 14 ft. wide between them, is the building C, the mail* 

 M-irt of which is a cockerel house 11 ft. wide by 40 ft. long. At the east end of this is a she\l 

 16 x 20 ft. for hitching place for teams. This cockerel house contains eight pens 5x7 ft.,, 

 with walk a little over 3 ft. wide in the rear. The out>ide measurement of the width of 

 the building is 11 ft. The other measurements were made inside, hence the discrepancy of 

 some inches. There are no outside pens connecting with this house. 



Directly west of the feed room and 100 ft. distant from it is a second cockerel house I), 12 x 

 36 ft., containing 6 pens 6 x 12 ft. Outside are yards 30 ft. long and of the same width as the 

 inside pens. 



In front of this house, and 98 ft. from the line of the front of the 200 ft. house is a thin! 

 cockerel house built last fall. This house is 15 ft. wide, not quite 100 ft. long, and contain* 

 over fifty pens. 



The land actually occupied by the poultry plant described, including spaces between the 

 separate buildings and yards comprises a little over three acres. Much of the remainder of 

 the farm is given to the young stock, the growing stock in roosting coops being well spread 

 over it. The mowing land gives a heavy crop of grass before it is needed for the chicks. 

 A couple of acres are planted to cabbage for the fowls every year. Some grain is grown for 

 hay and litter, and there is some ground in garden crops, but the growing chicks have all the 

 range they can use. 



Then several hundred yards in front of the house A there is a grassy shrubby piece of low 

 ground where several sheds are erected. In these after the breeding season the hens from the 

 breeding pens take their vacation. 



A Two Thousand Hen Plant. 



The plant of C. F. Thompson & Co., at Lynnfield Center, Mass., is another case where the 

 land, some dozen acres, allowed a liberal margin around the houses and yards, and so required! 

 no close figuring on space. 



Still it is quite on the extensive plan, and while I have called it a 2,000 hen plant, and the 

 winter capacity is over 2,000 hens, Messrs. Thompson & Co. do not attempt to grow even half 

 their young stock here, but have over half of it grown for them elsewhere. 



