. The Farm-poultry . t of boards atthe bottom, and above this four feet of two-inch mesh wire netting. Work has beencommenced on twelve more pens. Whenthese are completed the laying house will betwo hundred and sixty-four feet in length. The incubator cellar is of brick, twenty-eight feet wide, forty feet long, with a cementfloor, and windows — three by four feet—hinged at the bottom. Ten Prairie State 400-egg incubators are in use. The plant makes a specialty of pure bredWhite Wyandottes for early broilers for theDenver market, as well as for stock for salefor breeding purposes, and eggs for
. The Farm-poultry . t of boards atthe bottom, and above this four feet of two-inch mesh wire netting. Work has beencommenced on twelve more pens. Whenthese are completed the laying house will betwo hundred and sixty-four feet in length. The incubator cellar is of brick, twenty-eight feet wide, forty feet long, with a cementfloor, and windows — three by four feet—hinged at the bottom. Ten Prairie State 400-egg incubators are in use. The plant makes a specialty of pure bredWhite Wyandottes for early broilers for theDenver market, as well as for stock for salefor breeding purposes, and eggs for stock is of the best strains of thisvariety, and they bought the best, regardlessof cost. This past season they raised a finelot of young stock, and are now ready forbusiness. Nebraska. As a result of the warm vseather in October,much of the poultry arriving at eastern mar-kets was in very poor condition. In NewYork, in one week, the board of healthinspectors condemned over sixty barrels Fig. .5. THE INCUBATOR , WATSONS RANCH. een inches wide and twelve inches small doors on the north side, and thewindows on the south side, could be allopened and closed at the same time, from thewest end of the building by turning car brakewheels. The plant cost some four thousanddollars. It was never in operation. During the past year all of this has beentorn out, the excavations filled up, and insteadmore practical buildings have been con-structed. There is a brooder house eighteenfeet wide by ninety long, containing threePrairie State sectional brooders. This build-ing is five and a half feet high at the eaves,with a roof of the style shown in the brooderbouse plans furnished by the Prairie j;tateIncubator Co. On the outside of the frame isdrop-siding; on the inside is Cabots sheathing Quilt, and then a lining of ship lap. Theroof is sheathed, then covered with Quilt,and finished with first quality cedar way is five feet wi
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