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LESSONS IN POULTRY KLEPING — SECOND SERIES. 



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C. F. Thompson & Co.'s 'PovUry 'Plant 

 Scale, 1-80 incli to the foot; 



' A, B, C, stock houses, long houses with walks, brooder house in east eiiii of C: 



is a large yard, useJ, as a rule, for a breeding pen. On the other side of Grove street is a 

 pasture used for a few liroodsof chicks iu the early part of the season, and later for pullets, 

 tbese being boused througli the summer in slatted front roosting coops placed in a row under 

 the trees near the street with iiilervals of about 100 ft. between the coops. 



fir. Bright's Farm Plant. 



On the home plant Mr. Bright bail lo make the buildings and yards fit the space availal>le, but 

 on the thirty-five acre farm, less than lialf « mile away, be had ample room for whatever sort 

 of building equipment he miglit want. The beginning of the poultry plant on this farm was 

 the 200 ft. house A, with cook and feed house attached. 



This bouse faces squarely south. It is 15 ft. wide, and contains 19 pens lOJ ft. wide 

 by 11 ft. deep. The passage in tlie rear of the pens is 4ft. wide. The cook and feed house l> j»»t 

 back of the vie^t end of this house, and consists of one room 20 ft. square, in which are the 

 cooker, bone cutter, pump, etc., an L, 12 x 20 ft., containing the feed bins, and a lean-to S ft. 

 wide, in which is the boiler. At the cast end of the 200 ft. house is a shed for manure. 



The arrangement of yards here is similar to that on the plant first described, except Ihat the 

 large yards are longer, and there are more of them. The yards next the house, corre- 

 sponding to the pens inside are 104 ft' wide by 30 ft. long. The general plan is a large \ ard 

 for every two of tbese, just the width of two yards, and 120 ft. long. The last long yanl i-< 

 irregular. As the number of small \ards is uneven, it is made the width of three small yard-. 

 There are grape vines in the small yards running up over the division fences and affording fine 

 shade. The large yards are set with fruit trees. 



About 200 ft.' back of the house A is a scratching shed house B, 126 ft. in length. This house 

 was made from part of an old barn and some other out buildings, and is of such irregular 

 construction that I did not attempt an accurate diagram — not thinking that a mutter of 

 special importance in this connection. There are about twice as many pens as yards, some 

 having scratching sheds, and some small pens having none. Tbese small pens are used mostly 

 as accessory to the large pens, or for sitters or extra males. The yards in front are 7"2 ft. 

 deep, and of varying widths, the narrowest being 26 ft.; the widest 35 ft. 



