38 EAISING FOWLS AND EGGS 



SUCCESSFUL ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION. 



THE LARGEST POULTRY FARM IN THE -WORLD. 



Since the foregoing pages were published, (in the original 

 twenty-five cent pamphlet form,) our attention has been at- 

 tracted to the May issue of Stoddard's "Poultry World," 

 which contains a very interesting and elaborate account of an 

 immense chicken-raising establishment on the banks of the Hud- 

 son River, at Cresskill, N. J., such as we had no thought ex- 

 isted on this continent. 



The following detailed description of this great poultry- 

 raising farm, conducted by Wm. C. Baker, Esq., with the ac- 

 companying illustrations of his fowl- houses, incubating house, 

 brooding-house, &c., we transfer to this work, by permission 

 of Mr. Stoddard. And we can only say, that this chicken- 

 rearing place is by far the most extensive, practical, and suc- 

 cessful, that has ever been brought to our notice. 



Our present work would be quite incomplete without some 

 details of this enormous establishment, surely. We therefore 

 give this article almost entire ; since upon Mr. Baker's system, 

 (which has never been approached elsewhere), tens of thousands 

 of domestic fowls may be hatched and raised with the greatest 

 ease, by competently educated persons, who have the means to 

 carry out the details of this grand plan for artificial hatching 

 and rearing domestic poultry, on a large scale. 



Upon this fine estate, at Cresskill, N. J., at gome rods distant 

 from the family residence and ornamented grounds, stand the 

 great glass-covered chicken-houses, the iucubating-house, the 

 enormous laj'ing-houses (the latter in a range four hundred and 

 sixty feet long), the forcing-house, or patent feeding-rooms, the 

 slaughtering-house, store-rooms, etc., which constitute this im- 

 mense artificial fowl-raising establishment — bej'ond compai-ison 

 the grandest and most extensive thing of its kind in the world. 



I^ courtesy of the Editor of the " Poultry World," we pre- 

 sent the original drawings of the buildings, tScc, premising that, 

 up to the issuing of our first editions, we had no idea that 

 there existed anywhere so enormous a chicken-raising establish- 

 ment, or that it had yet been brought within the reach of science 

 and art to compass the wondrous success in this direction that 

 Mr. Baker has finally accomplished. 



After practically experimenting in various ways for several 

 years (during which period ^Ir. Baker has expended in these 

 experiments, and in the erection and appointments of his nume- 



