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LL550N5 IN POULTRY KLLFING — SECOND SERIES. 



Viewing tlie. diagram of this planf first as >• whole, we see flist ii row of sm;ili houfea, a,a. 

 Tbeii the mikiH liouse b, with the pump house next it. Then Icicli of lhi» anotiier small liouse, 

 .;. Then tlie three long houses, A, B, and C, and the cook and feed. Ijouses. BHck of ibese 

 again are more small detached houses, and far back of thet-e a single house, i. Back of tlie 

 cook liouse is a house which could be used for a man if required, but is now occupied by a ten- 

 ant. The distance from the road in front of the residence to the rear line of the farm is 

 nearly a quarter of a mile. 



The poultry houses face the southeast. A narrow road runs from the public road in front 

 along the northeast line of the plant as platted. 



The long houses. A, B, C, are of the same width, 12 ft. A and B arc each 240 ft. long. C i» 

 200 ft. long. There is a 3 ft. walk in each house. In A there are 12 pens; in B, 13. In C the 

 fi;st 6S ft. from the northeast end is the brooder house. The remainder of the house is divideil 

 into seven pens. 



The yards fi)r A are 12 yards, each 42 ft. long, corresponding with the interior pens, anrl 

 ^ix larger yards with the width of two small \iards. In front of B the small yards are 38 It. 

 deep, and between them and the house A is a large undivided yard to which the fowls from 

 B have access alternately. There is quite a dip in the ground at- this point, and for convenience 

 in work this little valley is bridged by an elevated walk extending from the end of A to B, 

 which saves a great deal of up and down hill work in feeding and watering. 



The large cook and store house is 24J x 42 ft., the smaller feed house 15 x 30 ft., with a root 

 cellar underit; the small houses, h and c, are old buililings that were on the farm when pur- 

 chased by Jlr. Thompson. For yard room the fowls in b have the long yard running cross- 

 ways of the plant back of the small houses a, a, while those in c are given the run of the large 

 yard which should, in accordance with the plan, be used for the first pens in house A. 



The small houses a, a, are each .5 x 8 ff., divided in the middle, and are used especially for 

 bens and chicks, for the young broods first, later for the growing stock. In winter they fur- 

 nish gooil places for surplus males. Except for the first two where the yards had to be short 

 on account of the jirojection of the dwelling house and barn, these yards are 58 ft. in depth. 



The small houses in the rear of the plant are each 5 ft. wide by 18i ft. long, divided in the 

 niidiUe, giving pens suitable for detached brooders, for roosting quarters for growing stock, or 

 for small pens of mature fowls. As will be noticed, the ^ 



house at the extreme end of each row is out of the sys- 

 tem, and these houses are in fact extra, not regularly 

 used. That in the first row has a small yard in front of 

 it; the other has none. Their principal use is for vaca- 

 tion quarters for the breeding stock. 



It will be noticed that the yards for the pens in the 

 southwest half of each liouse in the row il, tl, are smaller 

 than the others. To compensate for this, the chicks 

 from these pens are r,lternately given free run in the 

 vacant space back of them. 



.Siimething like a hundred yards back of this row of 

 houses is a house 14 x 30 ft., which has been used for 

 (liftVrent purposes, but will next year be used for breed- 

 ing pins (if Leghorns. Scattered about this undivided 

 spine are coops similar to those commonly used as 

 rooslinu' I'oops for growing stock. In these the breed- 

 ing hciis kept ovf-r are every }eargi\'en tlieir vacation 

 through tlie hot months. 



A Roomy Plant for a 5mall Space. 



By a "small space" here I mean small as com'parnl 

 with those we have been considering. This plant was 

 on a three acre lot in the residence portion of a town. 

 As described It occupied about half an acre, such a 



A Plant to Fit a Small Space. 

 Scale. 1-80 inch to tlie foot; 1-16 



iiicli equals 5 feet. 

 A , o)(i lnmsc; n, new house; c, bauiam 



