POUI.TRY EXPERIMljNTS. lOQ 



Study the practical application of many of its own findings on an 

 extensive, intensive business plant. Some of the results thus 

 far obtained are made a part of the present bulletin, 



GO-V/KLIv FARM. 



Of the hundred acres of land comprising the farm, thirty 

 acres immediately at, and overlooking the village of Orono was 

 fallowed and tilled for a year, then seeded to clover and grasses, 

 in order to bring it into good condition for poultry farming. 



The Barn and Incubator Room. 



A barn of the Shrever plank frame pattern, 40 feet square, 

 with 22 feet walls, was erected over a dry basement which has 

 a heavy stone wall on 3 sides. The ground slopes away from 

 the building on the east side sufficiently so that the large doors 

 and windows in that side of the basement, open out on to reced- 

 ing ground, and renders the basement easy of access from a 

 nearly level yard outside. 



In addition to the 2 windows of 12 lights each, of 10 by 14 

 glass, in the east wall, the basement is lighted by 2 cellar win- 

 dows in each of the 3 other sides. This gives a dry, well lighted 

 room, 7 feet high and a little more than 36 feet square. It 

 furnishes ample room for 24 of the largest Cyphers incubators, 

 5 or 6 barrels of oil, work tables and wide passages among the 

 machines. 



The windows on the exposed sides are shaded, when neces- 

 sary, to protect from the warmth of the direct rays of the sun. 

 During the spring months when the incubators are being used, 

 the temperature of this room varies but little with changes in 

 the weather outside. The first floor above the basement fur- 

 nishes room for the storage of feed, machinery, appliances, and 

 a general work room, while above it on the second floor, there 

 was stored, last season, 40 tons of hay. 



Brooder Houses. 



There are 40 brooder houses built on shoes, so that they can 

 be easily drawn about the farm to clean land when necessary. 

 In size and construction, they are like the houses described under 

 the heading, — Brooder Houses, — on pages 103 and 104. 



