Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-31


'oo not or too cold for the healthy and
flshtful progress of the hatchngs, the I'M
cue variation OF lloat'is instantly announced
through indicators governed by the electric
current and apparatus contriyed for this
special purposp. The atmosphere in the in
cubatng apartment is kept moist and humid
like The warm spring air-by placing open
shtlioW pans Of water around, upon which
the heated air acts advantageously, evapor,-
tlng 1t evenly and admirably. The Young
olrds remain in the trays (where they first
see daylight after breaking their shells) for
two or three hours, when they become drv
ana lively, and are transferred to what Mr.
Baker calls his ''brooding-house
This glass house is thirty feet in width and
one hundred and titty-eight feet in length.
1t IS divided of into fifty separate compart-
ments twenty-five on either sidc), in each
of1wlrh are kept and s'brooded,'' artificial
~. one hundred chicks from the second day
of their birth to two or three weeks old. the
accommodations within this large conselya-
tory'belng ample for five thousand chicks at
a time (of all agesl,, from the size ola half
grown robin tothat of pigeon or part
ridge. until they become good-sized broers,
and then, at from one and half to two and
i half pounds each, they aret dressed and
sent to the hotels and restaurants ilf.New
! orS at forty.to fifty cents per pound.
III this house the chickens are s.brooded''
when quite young BY a patent hell-mother
to each pen. At two or Three weeks old.
transfers are made from this house to anoth-
er and larger range f'buildngs, similarly
glazed and yentilated,in which are also con-
fined, III numerous separate apartments, the
laying hens and pu.lets kept on the premises
by Mr.. Baker. Thisslatter range of build
inSs is glazed on one sitle only, is four hum
dred and sixty feet long, divided into seven
ty-five compartments, and each pen has
three rooms or divisions init. The pens
run through from front to rear, and are six
feetwide, each, by twenty feet long, from
east to west. The fowls are fed from the
rear of the pens. This immense laying
house is heated by steam or hot water pipes
again. and the apartment is kept at continu-
Gus summer heat Gn the colder season. by
this means, whereby Mr.. Baker has found,
with stimulating food and constant care.
that hissfowls clay we'll in winter time., .fs
we'll as in the warm months of the year In
each pen there are kept from twenty to I
twenty-five hens and pullets, or about two
thousand 1aying-fowls in all; and these are
of all sorts and kinds-well-br full-bred,
cross-bred, etc.-sllited to Mr.. Bakers pur-
pose-to wit. tayi,ag Of eggs only.
Not far from this building stands the
or forcing-house, one hundred
and twenty feet long by twenty-five feet
wide. which is quite novel in this country.
Thereeare erected within itseight round, up.
right wooden feeding machines each
having tive tiers of small boxes, pigeon-hole
shaped, for the accommodation of a single
fowl in box. and each machine will hold.
in the five circles running around this up
right drum. two hundred and ten birds,
when deposited there for forcing flesh upon
them for marketing.
1t requires fifteen to eighteen days of this
to pat the fowls taken from the
runs in ordinary trim into the best possible
for The table. The eNtrasflesh thus
pat upon them through process is not liter
lily 1at, but good, sound, solid 1aeat There
;aif be SO prepared in this building thirty
thousand chick ems per annum.
Each box holds one bird. The FEEDER
axes it by the head, and thrllsting a pipe
nto its gullet, forces from Il mess tub near
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mashed food PREPARED for this purpose.