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LL$SON5 IN POULTRY KLLPING 5LCOND 5LRIL5. 



Viewing the diagram of this plant first as a whole, we see first a row of small houses, a, a. 

 Then the small house b, with the pump house next it. Then back of this another small house, 

 <.-. Then the three long houses, A, B. and C, and the cook and feed houses. Back of these 

 sigain are more small detached houses, and far back of these a single house, i. Back of the 

 ;ook house is a house which could be used for a man if required, but is now occupied by aten- 

 3int. The distance from the road in front of the residence to the rear line of the farm is 

 nearly a quarter of a mile. 



The poultry houses face the southeast. A narrow road runs from the public road in front 

 long the northeast line of the plant as platted. 



The long houses, A, B, C, are of the same width, 12 ft. A and B are each 240 ft. long. C is 

 200 ft. long. There is a 3 ft. walk in each house. In A there are 12 pens; in B, 13. In C the 

 (first OS ft. from the northeast end is the brooder house. The remainder of the house is divided 

 into seven pens. 



The yards for A are 12 yards, each 42 ft. long, corresponding with the interior pens, and 

 *ix larger yards with the width of two small yards. In front of B the small yards are 38 ft. 

 *leep, and between them and the house A is a large undivided yard to which the fowls from 

 B have access alternately. There is quite a dip in the ground at this point, and for convenience 

 in work this little valley is bridged by an elevated walk extending from the end of A to B, 

 which saves a great deal of up and down hill work in feeding and watering. 



The large cook and store house is 24 x 42 ft., the smaller feed house 15 x 30 ft., with a root 

 cellar under it; the small houses, b and c, are old buildings that were on the farm when pur- 

 chased by Mr. Thompson. For yard room the fowls in b have the long yard running cross- 

 ways of the plant back of the small houses a, a, while those in c are given the run of the large 

 yard which should, in accordance with the plan, be used for the first pens in house A. 



The small houses a, a, are each 5 x 8 ft., divided in the middle, and are used especially for 

 liens and chicks, for the young broods first, later for the growing stock. In winter they fur- 

 nish good places for surplus males. Except for the first two where the yards had to be short 

 on account of the projection of the dwelling house and barn, these yards are 58 ft. in depth, 



The small houses in the rear of the plant are each 5 ft. wide by 18 ft. long, divided in the 

 middle, giving pens suitable for detached brooders, for roosting quarters for growing stock, or 

 for small pens of mature fowls. As will be noticed, the 

 liouse at the extreme end of each row is out of the sys- 

 tem, and these houses are in fact extra, not regularly 

 tised. That in the first row has a small yard in front of 

 it; the other has none. Their principal use is for vaca- 

 tion quarters for the breeding stock. 



It will-be noticed that the yards for the pens in the 

 southwest half of each house in the row d, d, are smaller 

 than the others. To compensate for this, the chicks 

 from these pens are alternately given free run in the 

 vacant space back of them. 



Something like a hundred yards back of this row of 

 iiouses is a house 14 x 30. ft., which has been used for 

 <diflVrent purposes, but will next year be used for breed- 

 ing pens of Leghorns. Scattered about this undivided 

 >p:ice are coops similar to those commonly used as 

 voostinu coops for growing stock. In these the breed- 

 ii-g hers kept over are every year given their vacation 

 through the hot months. 



A Roomy Plant for a Small Space. 



By a " small space" here I mean small as compared 

 with those we have been considering. This plant was 

 on a three acre lot in the residence portion of a town. 

 As described it occupied about half an acre, such a 



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A Plant 1o Fit a Small Space. 



Scale, 1-8O inch to the foot; 1-16 



inch equals 5 feet. 



A. oJd house; J>, new house; c-, bantam 



house. 



