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PRACTICAL FARM BUILDINGS
PLANS AND SUGGESTIONS
BY A. F. HUNTER
PUBLISHED BY
F. W. BIRD & SON
Established 1817
Mills and Main Office
EAST WALPOLE, MASS., U.S.A.
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COPYRIGHT, 1905, F. W. BIRD & SON,
EAST WALPOLE, MASS.
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A FOREWORD
The very cordial appreciation which has met the first edition of ourbook, “Practical Farm Buildings,” makes it seem wise to prepare alarger and more complete book, and we hope you will find some of theseplans and suggestions adapted for your own particular requirements.
Farm-building plans are as variable, almost, as is the individualityof those building and using them, and in making this selection, wehave been guided by the practical merits of the designs, includingonly such as have proved their value by constant use on the farm. Inpoultry buildings it has been our special purpose to present planswhich illustrate the marked tendency of recent years, which has been toopen up the houses to sunshine and fresh air; a tendency which makesconditions more wholesome and promotes the good health and greaterprofitableness of the flocks.
Our editor, Mr. Hunter, wishes here to fully acknowledge hisindebtedness to Bulletin No. 16 of the Cornell Reading Course forFarmers, entitled, “Building Poultry Houses,” also Farmers’ BulletinNo. 141 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, entitled, “PoultryRaising on the Farm,” from which he borrows many of the hints andsuggestions here given. Some of the poultry plans are taken, oradapted, from several poultry periodicals and Experiment StationBulletins, and for their kind courtesy our thanks are tendered.
East Walpole, Mass., U. S. A.
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Practical Farm Buildings
1. POULTRY HOUSES
Farmers’ Bulletin, No. 141, says: “Poultry houses need not be elaboratein their fittings or expensive in construction. There are certainconditions, however, which should be insisted upon in all cases. Inthe first place, the house should be located upon soil which is welldrained and dry. A gravelly knoll is best, but, failing this, the siteshould be raised by the use of the plow and scraper until there isa gentle slope in