A TWO THOUSAND HEN PLANT. 



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al Lynnjteld Center, Mass. 

 1-16 iucli eaualB.5 feet. 



u, (1, e, 4letached coops for licus ami chicks, or for surplus slocli ; b, c, and i, siiiall.iiouses. 



West of tlie bouse, with u roadway 14 ft. wide between them, is the building C,the main 

 \nn of which is a coclierel houiie 11 ft. wide by 40 ft. long. At the east end of this is a shetl 

 16 X 20 ft. for hitching place for teams. This cockerel house contains eight pens 5x7 ft., 

 with walk , a little over 3 ft. wide in the rear. The outside measurement of the width of 

 tiie building is H ft. The other measurements were made inside, hence the discrepancy of 

 some inches. Thei-e are no outside pens connecting with this bouse. 



Directly west of the feed room and 100 ft. distant from it is a second cockerel house D, 12 x 

 36 ft., containing 6 pens 6 x 12 ft. Outside are yards 36 ft. long and of the same width as the 

 inside pens. 



In front of this house, and 98 ft. from the line of the front of the 200 ft. house is » third 

 cockerel bouse built last fall. This house is 15 ft. wide, not quite 100 ft. long, and contains 

 over fifty pens. 



The land actually occupied by the poultry plant described, including spaces lietween the 

 separate buildings and yards comprises a little over tliree aci'es. Much of the remainder of 

 the farm is given to the 'young stock, the growing stock in roosting coops being well spread 

 over it. The mowing land gives a heavy crop of f;rass liefore it is needed for the chicks. 

 A couple of acjes are planted to cabbage foi' the fowls every year. Some grain is grown for 

 hay and litter, and there is some ground iu garden crops, but the growing chicks have all tlie 

 range they can use. 



Then several hundred yards in front of the house A there is a grassy shrubby piece of low 

 ground where several shfeds are erected. In these after the breeding season the hens from the 

 lireeding pens take their vacation. 



A Two Thousand Hen Plant. 



The plant of C. F. Thompson &■ Co., at Lynnfield Center, Mass., is another case where the 

 land, some dozen acres, allowed a liberal margin around the houses and yards, and so required 

 no close figuring on space. 



Still it is quite on the extensive plan, and while I have called it a 2,000 hen plant, and the 

 winter capacity is over 2,000 hens, Messrs. Thompson & Co. do not attempt to grow even halt 

 their young stock here, but have over half of it grown for them elsewhere. 



