. The Eastern poultryman . Fishers Island Farm. As a proper introduction to this article we would say that in nine cases out of every ten descriptions of poultry farms as published in the various poultry peri- odicals throughout the United States are over-drawn, very much over-colored in- deed, and the fact that the impression the uninitiated gets by reading such de- scriptions is so much different from that he gets by visiting the same plants has done much injury to the poultry business, especially in the market line. But it is not our purpose here to take the various editors of our poultry p
. The Eastern poultryman . Fishers Island Farm. As a proper introduction to this article we would say that in nine cases out of every ten descriptions of poultry farms as published in the various poultry peri- odicals throughout the United States are over-drawn, very much over-colored in- deed, and the fact that the impression the uninitiated gets by reading such de- scriptions is so much different from that he gets by visiting the same plants has done much injury to the poultry business, especially in the market line. But it is not our purpose here to take the various editors of our poultry press to task for allowing the truth to be varnished on necessary occasions, but rather to write a few words in description of an old, well-known, and strongly-established poultry farm—one that is well-known to every poultryman of any prominence throughout the United States, Canada, and to a greater or less extent all over the world. In describing a poultry farm about which so much has been written and published, it is a \'ery difficult matter to separate the chaff from the wheat and bring out anv new points. But probably the first point that the practical poultry- man would take into consideration would be the construction of the plant, the ar- rangement of the different buildings as related to the proper housing and con- venience in caring for the stock, the size of the buildings, grounds, the methods of caring for the different birds, and other things, all of which should be taken into consideration by any one pro- posing to build and operate a plant of any size. Following out the ideas above men- tioned, we will begin first with the brooder-house. This building, which, together with the incubator-room, makes the most vital wheel in the machinery of a well-constructed and operated poultry plant, is .^oo feet in length by 20 feet in width and is divided into two parts, the lower half of which is devoted to the ac commodation of the small chicks and ducks as they are ta
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