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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar51908newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Duck Breeding House, with Flock of Ducklings in the Foreground weeks are ample time to keep them in the warm brooder house, when they are placed in cold brooders in the colony houses. Care is taken, however, not to transfer them to the colony houses until the nights in the spring become fairly warm, as artificial heat is seldom provided in connection with the colonies. The dimensions of the colony houses differ considerably, but in many of the larger es- tablishments buildings are erected each of which will accommodate at least one hun- dred chickens. The modern poultry raisers appreciate the profit in sending eggs to winter mar- kets, and this feature of the industry has greatly expanded in recent years. A layer house on one of the large poultry farms may contain five hundred pullets in a space two hundred and fifty feet long and sixteen feet wide. The layer houses are usually divided into pens, in each of which about twenty-five fowls are placed. Each pen contains a gate, which opens upon an alley along the side of the building, and oppo- site each pen is an opening by which the pullets can go into the yard or "park" provided for them. The parks are fenced off from each' other by means of wire net- ting, and are well surfaced with sand or dry earth where vegetation is not provided for food. Apparently pullets which aver- age six months old are the best layers for the winter market. If care is taken to hatch them out in the spring so that they will reach this age by November 1 they will lay with remarkable regularity provided they are properly sheltered and fed. In addition to suitable houses for fowls
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Weighing Fowls for Market Section of the Nursery Brooder House for Hatching Ducks, Showing an Arrangement for Maintaining an Even Temperature of different ages, care is taken to see that they are provided with pure water and food that improves their condition. Some of the poultry farms which are operated by scientific methods yield a remarkably large profit considering the investment. A farm in northern New York, on which thirty thousand dollars was expended for land, buildings and stock, pays its owners a profit of from twelve to fifteen per cent. on the investment annually, after deducting all

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