The Portland daily press., 1900-10-13
Several Buildings and hOuse Con.
Strutted.
Further Extension Con-
templated.
Personal Items of General In
terest.

4lal EIdCE OF ldQu IN COuGQ EOIllaQQ
which is known 20 our older settlers as
Snake Hill, has undergone a wonderful
change since 1t became the site for Niles
Nelson's poultry plant, which has been
established on the largest kind Of a scale.
1t is well worth ones while to take a
walk up Smith street and see what has
been accomplished in the matter Of build
inRs and what great progress has already
been made N placing there a big supply
of poultry.
Three hen buildings are completed.
The largest is 100 feet long and u feet
wide, while the other two are 65 by p
feet. They are seven feet high on the
front side and five feet high on the back
side, with a shed roof, and are Of matched
pine boards covered on both walls and
roof with brown roofing paper, present.
ing a very neat appearance.
These buildings are divided into COM
partments 10 by u feet each, opening into
each other with double back action
doors, with large windows for light, etc.,
there being fifteen windows in the small
er buildings and twenty-five in the Iarg-
er one. Each compartment has a small
raised coop for the roosters,
and along one side Of the
compartment are nine wooden nests
underneath the roosting board, like so
many boxes which open by long lid on
the outside when the time comes to take
the eggs from the several nests. 1t is
also arranged that the hens shall go to
the roosting board from the back side of
the apartment. These buildings are
not the only accommodations for the
poultry, for at various spots have been
placed large, commodious coops which
afford shelter from the rain when the
poultry is at large about the grounds.
At the western end near Smith
street there has been erected a
dwelling house for the manager of the
plant which is one and half stories
high, a frame building. the dimension S
being 2lx42 feet, with eight rooms,
closets etc., with a cellar under. the whole
house, which will be used for Matching
purposes. Not far from this dwelling
and at its rear is another frame structure
which will be used for a cook house and
picking shed. 1t is 16x16 feet, two
stories, with two rooms and a chamber
and it is connected with small broodeI
house for small chickens,
The buildings which have just been
described will not embrace the entire
plant, for 1t is intended to provide for
ducks, and to this end a large building
81 feet long will he constructed, with a
capaoious duck pond, and Mr.. Nelson Is
now negotiating with the city officials
for the use or purchase OF the gravel pit
in connection with this branch of his
industry.
The construction of all these buildings
shows first class work manshlp, and this
has fallen to the lot of several OF the en-
ployees of the E. L. Burrowes Co. s.
screen factory in Portland. The practi.
cal management of this very extensive
poultry plant is in the competent hands
of Mr.. Harvey Davis Of South Portland
who has already secured about 1000 fowl
of every leading variety, and when things
get in full blast it is calculated that from
5000 to 1900 fowl will be about the
grounds. 1t is proposed to make feat
ure of early broilers for the markets
hotels, etc., and this will necessitate the
operation of several incubators. Eggs
for hacthing and all sorts Of fancy stock
in pairs. trios, and breeding pens will
be looked after, and everything which
finds a place in the best regulated hen
neries OF the United States Will be care
fully attended to by Mr.. Davis. Surely
the community is under obligations tc
Mr.. Niles Nelson for putting in our
midst so thoroughly an equipped poultry
plant, and we wish him the greatest
possible success
WILLIAM STUDLEY'S SOUVENIR.
Mr.. William Studley takes just pride
in the deer which he shot on his recent
hunting trip and yesterday was busily
engaged in preparing the hide which be
viii keep as a souvenir. One OF his
neighbors who was generously remem-
bered when the meat was divided and
watched the process yesterday, humorous
" remarked, ''That is first class work you
are doing Mr.. Studley, and while am
not disposed to look even a gift deer in
the mouth let me suggest that when the