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birds, a hen house of the scratching shed variety, 

 capable of accommodating some two hundred and fifty 

 hens, and a work-shop with living apartments for the 

 resident man. 



We also sunk a well one hundred and seventeen feet 

 deep, erecting over it a sixty foot wind-mill tower, 

 which carries an eighteen hundred gallon tank. From 

 this pipes were laid to convenient parts of the property. 



Three hundred pairs of Homer pigeons were placed 

 in the house built for that purpose, and we went dili- 

 gently to work to prove that this was the quick and 

 easy way to wealth which the ingenious writers of 

 squab literature proved so conclusively on paper. 



On the chicken side of the experiment we seemed 

 to lean (possibly because of the fact that squabs take 

 one into the slaughter house business) towards one 

 or more of the market breeds, and, to meet the needs 

 of this part of the business, we understood that any 

 of the " Rock " family were best for the purpose. 



Started with 60 Buff Rock Eggs 



We purchased an incubator with the capacity of 

 sixty eggs, being fearful of attempting the operation 

 of a larger machine, because, like a great many novices, 

 we had the feeling that an incubator was a very 

 dangerous thing, and that anyone without a vast 

 amount of experience should not attempt to handle 

 it. We placed in this diminutive machine sixty Buff 

 Rock eggs, and obtained a very fair hatch. With 



