. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... rable to make the feed room of am-ple dimensions, as it frequently is necessary to spreadnew grain or damp feed of any kind loosely on the floor,rather than to put it in bins where it will quickly heatand mold. This is particularly true in the case of cornmeal and new shelled or cracked corn, which can seldomhe placed in large bins with safety. For storing ear cornin the fall it is desirable to have a ventilated crib of slatsor wire screen so that air can circulate through it. If itis to be stored in a feed house or a limited sup
. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... rable to make the feed room of am-ple dimensions, as it frequently is necessary to spreadnew grain or damp feed of any kind loosely on the floor,rather than to put it in bins where it will quickly heatand mold. This is particularly true in the case of cornmeal and new shelled or cracked corn, which can seldomhe placed in large bins with safety. For storing ear cornin the fall it is desirable to have a ventilated crib of slatsor wire screen so that air can circulate through it. If itis to be stored in a feed house or a limited supply keptfor immediate use in the poultry house, the sides of thebin should be made of wire screen or 1-inch mesh poultrynetting, rather than of tight boards. ADMINISTRATION BUILDING FOR LARGEPLANTSLarge Plants Need a House Like This One Where Muchof the Daily Work Can Be Performed UnderOne house plans illustrated and described in the pre-ceding pages, cover all practical requirements of the aver-age poultry plant, large or small, as regards accommoda-. FIG. 163—FIRST FLOOR PLAN IN ADMINISTRATION BUILDING ADMINISTRATION AND OTHER SPECIAL BUILDINGS 85 tions for brooder chicks, layingflocks, breeding pens, etc. There arefew large poultry farms, however,that do not require a large, central-ly located house where feeds andmiscellaneous supplies can be storedand in or about which can conveni-ently be grouped facilities that arenecessary for efficiently administer-ing the work of the farm. Generallysuch a building should be planned ona sufficiently large scale to provideample storage on the ground floor,with a room for killing and dressingtaljle fowls. A basement will affordroom for incubators at much lesscost than the construction of a sepa-rate building for this special \ second floor will provide comfort-able quarters for one or more of themen employed on the place, and anextension may be added on one sidefor a long brooder house to beequipped with lamp-heated h
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