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Title: Our farm and building book.
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: William A. Radford
Subjects: farm buildings -- catalogs agricultural buildings barns house plans
Publisher: Radford Architectural Company
Contributing Library: MBJ collection

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design there is illustrated apoultry house 36 feet long, divided intotwo compartments. A house thislength, 12 feet wide, gives room enoughfor two select pens of layers. It is generally understood when aman takes the trouble to build a chickenhouse as large as this that he.is plan-ning to keep pure breed poultry. Thereis a satisfaction about pure bred foulsthat only those who have studied themcan understand. To some farmers onehen is as valuable as another, becausethey have never given much attentionto breeding. They agree that pigs ispigs. In handling poultry in a house likethis, one compartment should be usedfor the breeding stock. When feedingthe chickens in the fall and early winter,it is easy to pick out the best hens andpullets for breeding purposes. A pen of fifteen or twenty selectedhens will lay eggs for the foundationof a very valuable lot of poultry. It is -*K- 5RO0DIMCCOOPJ -BW- 5CMTCHINC ROOM \ 30ATCHINC M I. \7:Gx\S DUST I7lGxI5 MX .4 Floor Plan of Poultry House No. A242L
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DOUBLE OPEN-FRONT POULTRY HOUSE.A satisfactory design, well lighted and ventilated; approved by successfulpoultry raisers. Size on the ground, 36 by 14 feet. We can furnish completeset of blue-printed working plans and typewritten specifications for only $2.00per set. When ordering, ask for Design No. A242L. OUR FARM AND BUILDING BOOK 85 worth a great deal of time and studyjust for the looks of having chickensthat are all alike. It pays to get a good cock bird froma man who makes a business of breed-ing the very best. A good poultry manwill not sell his best cock birds for lessthan $5.00 or $10.00. If the man under-stands and is honest, there is no doubtthat the stock is worth it. At the sametime, a cockerel from the same penmay be had for $2.00 to $5.00. Onecockerel may be just as valuable as theother, but the buyer takes chances onprepotency because he has not beentried out. A poultry house like this adds enoughdignity to the poultry end of the stockbusiness to secure the necessary

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