PRAIRIE FARMER'S POULTRY BOOK 



The feed room. One of the most difficult problems on 

 the farm is to provide a room for grains and mill products 

 required for feeding poultry and other farm animals that is 

 absolutely rat- and mouse-proof. These vermin contaminate 

 the food and bring disease and must be outwitted. The floors 

 of bins should be covered with tin or iron unless there is a 

 concrete floor and all windows and openings covered with 

 wire netting. Mashes left in sacks become a harbor for vermin. 

 It would be better to mix the mashes as soon as the materials 

 are obtained and put them in vermin proof bins. Many farms 

 are provided with machinery to grind grains so that cracked 

 corn, corn meal, ground oats, etc. can be produced on the 

 farm. Wheat can be taken to the local mill and bran, middlings, 

 etc. obtained in that way. 



Other buildings may be required, all depending upon how 

 extended are the operations of the producer. Conditioning 

 rooms or houses, storage places, and a detention house are of 

 this character. 



Cautions 



Do not build the poultry house on low ground. Dampness 

 breeds disease and disease spells loss. 



Do not face the poultry house toward the north or the west. 

 Prevailing storms are from those directions. 



Do not put doors or windows on the west side of the poultry 

 house. 



Another convenient brood coop 



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