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SUCCBdS WlfH POULTBT 



for five and eight-pound roasters, the Cochins are the best 

 and tenderest. The introduction of Asiatics has increased 

 the weight of market poultry in this section from two to 

 three pounas per head. I constantly advise farmers to buy 

 big, vigorous, thorough-bred males to put with their common 

 hens, and they are doing it. Those who do this and take 

 pains soon find their poultry to be tHe best paying crop they 

 raise. ' ' 



If you know very little about handling poultry, begin 

 on a small scale. Build a brooding house that will hold 500 

 . ahicks (or even 200), but build it so that^it can be added to 

 from year to year. Any properly constructed brooding 

 house can be built part at a time. Think twice, think sev- 

 eral times, before you take a step forward. Feel your way. 

 This is the great secret of success. Advice is cheap. Ex- 

 perience costs deadly, but is generally worth the price. Save 

 on experience by accepting good advice given in this book. 



The next few years will witness the development in the 

 west, northwest and south of dozens of large broiler farms 

 and scores of small ones. The best and most successful of 

 these will be combination farms. They will combine thor- 

 oughbred poultry with market poultry, and will give close 

 attention to egg production and the raising of broilers, roast- 

 ers and capons. By this combination a substantial, lasting 

 arid profitable business can be built up. 



An inviting feature of the poultry business is thfe fact 

 that a man or woman can begin at the bottom, with a small 

 amount of capital, and by proper effort work up a big and 

 paying business. There is apparently no limit to this busi- 

 ness. ]Mo one has ever yet reached a limit. There are farms 

 with capacities ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 chickens and 

 ducklings per year, but these men do not pretend that they 

 have reached the limit of profitable investment. 



SINGLE ROW RBUABLE BKOODING HOUSE. 



On the. next page are presented drawings of the Single 

 i Kow Eeliable Brooding House, a house that embodies the 

 best id^as to date for a single row house. This house can be 

 built in any length, the usual width being twelve to sixteen 

 feet, sixteen feet preferred. This gives room for a four- 

 foot aisle along the rear wall of the house, for brooders, two 

 and a half feet in width and for inside yards or runs nine 

 a,nd a half feet in length. These inSide runs can be built 

 on the plan of the Hammonton brooding house shown here- 

 with, that is, yards to be increased in size to accommo- 

 date the chicks as they grow larger, or the number of chicks 

 can be reduced. The lattei; is perhaps the easier plan, for 

 then the brooders are all' of the same length, but either plan 

 can be used as desir«d. 



If a long brooding house is built a double heater with 

 pipes extending both ways should be used, for this places th? 

 heater mid-way of the house, thus bringing the source of 

 heat nearer to the pens located in the ends of the house 

 farthest from the heater. Where a short house is built, say 



due of fifty feet or less in length, a heater with pipes extend- 

 ing from one side only will do veiy well. If a house one 

 hundred feet long is built, by all means locate the heater in 

 the middle of the house. 



A pit should be dug fifteen to eighteen inches deep for 



-the location of the heater. Make this pit large enough so 

 that the heater can be taken care of conveniently, and the 

 coal pit or bin should be located back of the heater and 

 within easy reach of it. The Eeliable Incubator and Brood- 

 er Company furnishes these heaters separate, or with com- 

 plete piping outfit, as desired. If you are located in a large 

 city where first-class plumbing can be had at a reasona- 

 ble price, it may be as well for you to buy piping near 

 at home and save freight charges, though the freight charges 

 on material of this class are not excessive. We think, -..s 

 a rule, it is better to buy a heater and piping complete, with 



• full directions in the shape of blue prints for setting up, 

 building the brooders and operating same. The Beliable 

 Company furnishes blue prints and full ^ instructions for 

 building and operating both the single row and double row 

 Eeliable brooding houses. W'here their plans are foUbwed, 

 they: assume the responsibility of proper fittings, etc., which 

 as a rule, more than offsets the freight charges, for they 

 know what they are about in this particular line, while the 

 ordinary plumber may b« at fault. 



Any good carpenter might, by studying the plan^ shown 

 on page 38 and consulting the . following bill of material, 

 build this- single row brood house without making a mis- 

 take. It is really a simple affair, but should be well built 

 and snugly built to' preserve tie heat and keep out the cold. 

 Brood houses like the two illustrated herewith are exten- 

 sively used by the successful duck and broiler raisers of 

 the east: 

 BUI of Material for Single Bow Reliable Brood House— No. 4. 



4 4x4 16 foot sills. 

 2 4x4 12 foot sills. 

 9 2x4 7-10 long side. 



14 2x4 3-10 short aides. 

 17 2x4 12 foot rafters. 

 17 2x4 5 foot rafters. 



" 5 2x4 7 foot eni studs. 



15 1x4 8 foot collar beams. 



6 2x4 6 foot partition for wire. 



5 , 2x4 16 foot plates. 



Six:teen posts set in ground, 560 feet 8 feet wide match- 

 ed, 618 feet 12 feet wide matched, 100 feet 12 inch stock for 

 easing, 650 feet sheeting, 5,250 shingles, six windows, sash 2 

 feet 6 inches wide, 32 inches high, 84 feet stock for pens, 

 212 feet 12 inch stock for brooder, 33 feet six inches dressed 

 fence for ridge boards, 7 pair 4 inch strap hinges, 6 pair 

 spring hinges for chicken doors, 25 pounds 20 spikes, 50 

 pounds 8 common nails, 24 pounds 4 penny nails, 10 pounds 

 8 finish nails, 1 gross No. 7% screws for doors on brooder, 

 2 pounds wrought nails, 36 lineal feet wire netting 2 feet 

 wide, 1,350 feet paper. 



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