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and labor. To meet this requirement there has recently been 

 devised the small crematory here described. The construction 

 was carried out with the idea of keeping the first cost as low as 

 possible, in order that there should be nothing about it which 

 any poultr3^man or farmer could not easily afford to duplicate. 

 As a matter of fact, the cost of materials for the crematory 

 here described was less than ten dollars. The labor was done 

 by the poultryman and his assistant at odd times, when an 

 hour or two could be spared for this work. The result is, 

 therefore, not beyond the reach of any poultryman or farmer. 

 At the same time the crematory is so satisfactory in operation 

 that anyone who builds one will wonder, after he has completed 

 and used it for a time, why he did not long before have so 

 simple and sanitary an adjunct to his plant. 



The crematory shown in Figure 60 is very simple in construc- 

 tion. It consists essentially of a cement base or fire box, bear- 

 ing on its top a series of grate bars which are in turn covered 

 by a cremating box or oven in which the material to be incin- 

 erated is placed. 



The crematory here described is sufficiently large to take 

 care of all the needs of a plant carrying 1000 head of adult 

 stock, raising 3000 to 4000 chickens annually, and in which a 

 good deal of anatomical and physiological research is going on, 

 necessitating a much larger amount of waste animal material 

 than the ordinary commercial poultryman would have. There- 

 fore, it is doubtful if it would be necessary in any but the very 

 largest commercial plants to build a larger crematory than the 

 one here described. 



In building this an excavation was first made for the base, 

 in which a lot of loose stones and gravel were placed, in order 

 to secure adequate drainage below the cement. On top of this 

 the cement base and fire box were made. 



This base consists essentially of a rectangular box made of 

 cement, open at the top, and with a small opening in front 

 through which the fire is fed and which serves as a draught. 

 The walls are about 6 inches thick. The outside dimensions of 

 the fire box base are 3 feet, 4 inches by 2 feet, 6 inches. The 

 inside dimensions of the fire box are 2 feet, 3 inches by i foot, 

 9 1-2 inches by i foot, 4 inches. Across the top of the fire box 

 there were laid, while the cement was still soft, some old grate 



