June. 1908 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



22: 



Chicken Houses and Runs 



Scientific Poultry Breeding 



By Day Allen Willey 



HROUGH the use of an incubator system and 

 the construction of buildings especially de- 

 signed and equipped for breeding, coloniz- 

 ing, etc., it has become possible for a poultry 

 raiser to send to market a thousand fowls, 

 where by the old-time haphazard methods 

 he. could sell but a few dozen. In fact, poul- 

 try raising has become a regular industry, tracts of land being 

 devoted entirely to it, the plant, for it may be called such, 

 being owned by a company, and the chickens and ducks 



produced as if turned out from a factory. Some of these 

 modern poultry raising plants send from two hundred and 

 fifty thousand to three hundred thousand chickens a year to 

 market, in addition to a hundred thousand or more ducklings, 

 saying nothing of enormous quantities of fresh eggs, for 

 these plants are capacious enough to hatch fifty thousand 

 eggs at one time on account of the size and number of the 

 incubators. 



The. site of the industry may be a tract of land cover- 

 ing only a few acres, or it may be of the dimensions of 



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A Flock of Ducks and the Building in which They Are Housed 



