The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-01-06
THE FARM AND HON +, !.
lPOuLTEY BUILDINGS CAPABLE
OF. EXPANSION.
Planning the Yards-Too Much Work.
Fruit Growing on the Farm Kerosene
Emulsion for Ticks and Lice Far IN
Notes and Home Hints. Is 5Trz
Poultry. SURROUNDINGS.

In entering into the poultry busi-
ness, it is always necessary to spend
some money in buildings. yards,
coops and general Surroundings. and
in my experience 1 have found that
there are generally two ways that
beginners go at this work. One has
very little capital to spare, and he
builds as little as possible, and
makes his calculations so small that
he is always cramped for room. AS
the time comes when his business
must expand, he finds that it is i'm
possible to increase his buildings in
size, but must destroy them and be-
gin all over again. The other class
Of beginners have a fair amount of
capital to spend, and they put it all
in stock and buildings at the very
beginning. Everything is put up in
good style and on a large scale. In
q short time he is SO cramped for
capital that he is unable to conduct
his business, and he must reduce it in
size while a great many of the bu Id
ings must lie idle. - ears.-
Now ;he successful beginner steers
clear OF both of these extremes. He
builds at first on q small scale, but
the whole work is planned on a.
larger scale. That is, he calculates
that in the course of five or ten years
his business will increase tenfold. and
hence he will need just ten times as
much room as at the start The land
for his poultry farm is consequently
selected in localities where there is
room for expansion. His buildings
and yards are; SO constructed that ad-
ditions can be put to them without
interfering with the original ones,
and in this way his whole business is
increased and his yards and buildings
extended. He has planned before
hand just for this expansion, and
every year he adds something to it.
The plan of a poultry yard should
be made out carefully on paper be-
forehand, says the American Cultiva-
ter. Select a farm of a mum ber of
Rcres in size, and divide it up quail
" into yards. In the center Of this
leave a place for the main building.
End arrange four separnte yards
around. it on all sides. I'm each yard
have, the special roosting house,
coops and feeding and drinking
places. From forty to sixty birds
should be kept in each yard, and
not more than that number. In
drawing the design, leave room for
e. gcod-sized footpath running from
tie main building out to the ends of
the farm. These paths must inter-
sect others, so that it will be an easy
walk from any yard to the main
building.
All of this being arranged, build
part of the main building in such a
way that it's size can be increased at
any time by additions AS the bust.
ness increases more room will be
needed here. Furnish, as it were, the
first four yards nearest the main
building. This will be all required
at the start. Then each year fit up
'ne or two more yards, with their
buildings, extending the work grad
ually from the central point out
toward the four sides. The growth
cf t business. then, will be regular.
and no capital will be wasted at the
beginning. nor will cne ever be
cramped for room when expansion
of the business demands more yards
and buildings.