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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
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228 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS June, 1908
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General View of a Scientific Chicken Hatchery, Showing the Arrangement of the Houses, with Flocks Feeding expenses of operation as well as of taxes and other charges. The hatcheries on this farm have produced as many as thir- teen thousand three hundred eggs in one month, a thousand pullets being reserved for laying. The annual output of spring chickens averages about four thousand. Of the eggs about sixty per cent, are sent to market, the balance being placed in the incubators. Although the place is located upon less than ten acres of land as many as six thousand fowls can be counted in its inclosures at one time. One of the largest poultry farms in the country is located at Aurora, New York, and is illustrated in the accompanying photographs. This place occupies a site of two hundred and sixty-nine acres, but only a portion of it is at present used for poultry raising, thirty acres being covered with timber and another section is devoted to growing grain partly for poul- try feed. The buildings include ten laying houses, having a capacity for no less than five thousand seven hundred hens. The incubator cellar contains one hundred and forty-six in- cubators with a total capacity of about fifty-five thousand eggs. The colony and brooder houses also provided are of such capacity that the company can take care of one hundred thousand young birds at one. time, while its annual output is two hundred and fifty thousand chickens for broiling and roasting and over one hundred thousand ducklings. Most of this poultry is sold in the larger eastern cities, as well as the eggs, which are hatched from fifty thousand hens kept spe- cially for this purpose. The results attained at this establishment show that the average hen will lay at least eleven dozen eggs a year at a total cost of but one dollar and a half annually for food and care. The price for the eggs is such that the average profit per fowl is one dollar and a quarter. From the eggs alone the company owning this plant secures a profit of sixty thou- sand dollars a year, while the profit on the chickens raised for broiling and roasting amounts to thirty thousand dollars more.

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