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mash for the two lower houses is laid down in the main 

 feed house, and for the upper houses the delivery trucks 

 back up the passageway and lay the mash down in the 

 upper shed. One hundred and fifty feet either way is 

 the extreme carry. 



An old shed is used for storing the feed for the young 

 chicks, located just across the main road from the 

 brooder houses. 



The hospital, observation and cull houses are locatea 

 behind the cockerel house and near the main feed house. 



After more than three years of day by day use of this 

 plant the writer can truthfully say that if he had it all to 

 do over again he would not make a single change in the 

 laying-out of the plant or the location of the several build- 

 ings. 



The Buildings 

 Brooder Houses 



The brooder houses, three at present with space alloted 

 for a fourth, are each 14x24 feet. These buildings are not 

 uniform and are of crude design and construction, having 

 been used on the old plant. (See illustration page 84.) 

 A gable roof is used. The sides are 5 feet high and the 

 peak of the gable is 8>4 feet high. The sills are laid on a 

 concrete foundation, in which two ventilators are set to 

 allow a circulation of air under the floor. A tongue-ana- 

 groove flooring is used, driven up tight and top-nailed to 

 keep it so. We have different arrangements, of windows 

 in each house. The most satisfactory is three 24x36 

 inch single light sash in the south side of the building, 

 and two 9x14 inch in the north side. The south lights are 

 flush with the plate at the top and the bottom rests on a 



