PRACTICAL EGG FARMS. 
Laying House 250 Feet Long, White Leghorn Poultry Yards. 
birds running together in that fashion, was 
certainly a surprise. “It isn’t according to 
your teaching,” said Mr. Prescott, “and your 
teaching is right. It takes eternal vigilance to 
crowd birds as we do and keep them'laying, and 
if you should advise people to let five hundred 
or six hundred birds all run together, they’d 
very soon come to grief. Your teaching of 
small flocks kept separate is right." We had 
to laugh at his not practicing what he preached. 
“That’s all right, too,” said he. “We have to 
adapt ourselves to circumstances, and this 
plant and our methods are the result of our 
circumstances.” 
Certainly the success which Mr. Prescott has 
wrought out there is worthy of emulation; he 
has proved that there is money for him in the 
poultry business. 
Farm Poultry. 
THE WHITE LEGHORN POULTRY YARDS 
One of the Largest and Best Equipped Poultry 
Farms in the World. The Fancy Side of 
the Business Given Due Prominence.— 
A Poultry Plant of 5,000 Head 
Capacity. 
The great majority of the successful poultry 
plants today began small and simply grew as 
circumstances and the experience of the owner 
warranted, until they attained a capacity of 
1,000 or more head of layers annually. Within 
the last few years, however, poultry farms have 
been established with the intention of making 
them great practical-fancy poultry plants. A 
large farm is bought and buildings planned for 
with the one purpose of building up a great 
poultry plant. 
One such, the Lakewood Poultry Farm, is 
described in this chapter, and another which 
has already attained a notable success and is 
ranked among the foremost poidtry farms in 
America, is the White Leghorn Poultry Plant, 
situated at Waterville, N. Y. Here is what 
may be claimed to be one of the most completely 
equipped, practical and up-to-date poultry 
plants; a poultry plant that in many respects 
might be considered a model. 
The proprietor of the White Leghorn Poultry 
Plant, Mr. C. J. Brainard, found it desirable, 
after completing his college course, to take up 
an occupation which would keep him out of 
doors a good part of the time, to re-establish 
his somewhat broken health. Being inter¬ 
ested in poultry, he investigated that subject 
quite thoroughly with a view to satisfying 
himself whether poultry raising on a large scale 
could be made a profitable business venture. 
There have been many failures in the poultry 
business, perhaps it would be more correct to 
say, that many have failed of the highest success 
in the poultry business than to say there have 
been absolute failures; at any rate, when Mr. 
Brainard had investigated many causes of 
failure of success, he decided that they were 
due to lack of experience and lack of capital; 
as well as lack of proper business methods,—it 
could very well be expressed in the homely 
phrase, “They bit off more than they could 
chew! ” 
As Mr. Brainard did not want to personally 
attend to the details of the business, he em¬ 
ployed a practical poultryman, Mr. H. S. 
Roach, who w r as formerly engaged in poultry 
work at the Cornell University Experiment 
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