. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable ... Poultry; Eggs Production. EGGS FOR PROFIT fenced with 1 by 3 inch unplaned pine pickets six feet in height. At the bottom laths are nailed to the stringer between these pickets to prevent the fowls picking each other through the fence, The houses are placed some thirty feet apart in order to make room for the width of the parks. The partitions in the houses are boarded up "so that the fo
. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable ... Poultry; Eggs Production. EGGS FOR PROFIT fenced with 1 by 3 inch unplaned pine pickets six feet in height. At the bottom laths are nailed to the stringer between these pickets to prevent the fowls picking each other through the fence, The houses are placed some thirty feet apart in order to make room for the width of the parks. The partitions in the houses are boarded up "so that the fowls in one side will not know what is going on in the other and throw them- selves against the partition when I am feeding," explained Mr. Wyckoff. The houses are built of common, unplaned, foot-wide barn-siding, with double roofs, shingled. The walls are of two thicknesses of the foot-wide boards, with building paper between, but no air space. No artificial heat is used. Last winter was a record-breaker for low temperature, The mercury went down to 36 below zero. In the above described houses the combs of a few male birds were slightly nipped, losing the slim points of some of the serrations, but Mr. Wyckoff reports that he has never yet found oni. ci hlii WHite Leghorn hens with a nipped or frost-bitten comb. One important reason for this is to be found in the small windows in his houses. Mr. Wyckoff uses board floors in his houses and' told us let down during severely cold nights. The top or cover of this inclosure can be made of burlap, or of thin boards, the latter preferred. By this arrangement, all the heat that is generated by the bodies of the fov/ls and that thrown off by their breathing will be confined in narrow limits, and will increase the temperature ten to fifteen degrees. The smaller the in- closure, the greater the warmth. Hens yarded fifty to each park were kept by Mr. Wyckoff solely for market eggs, not for breeding purposes. Where hatchable eggs are wa
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