Evening journal., 1911-05-19
Chibken Farm Has
$4,000 Laying Hens

not lose on the year round purchase,
and he had the advantage of knowing
that when he buys IL eggs ne gets
10 eggs that are fresh.
Covers Fifteen Acres.
Briarclin Farm covers 10 acres OF
land near Druid Hills. It is beauti-
fully situated on several little hills,
we'll wooded on the north side and
cleared on the south. NH. Gambler
was not so infatuated. as some Of his
friends suggested. with the racing
game that he named his farm after
one Of the famous automobile race
courses, but named It because Of the
nature of the land which the farm
covers. In a bottom between two hills
MIR. Gambler encountered briar patch
which covered about an acre. When
he waded through that briar patch
cne day several months ago, before
he had Il cleared away, he decided
that Briarcliff would be the most ap-
propriate name for his farm.
The houses. many OF them already
up, have concrete floors and concrete
walls up 10 two feet above the ground.
With floors and part of the wallis
made Of concrete Il Is impossible for
rats OF vermin TO reach the chickens.
In the interest of cleanliness Mr.
Gambler has had the houses built on
sloplng ground. These houses, divided
into many pens. are 40 feet long. and
! one end is always about seven feet
lower than the other. Thus when
they are flooded with water II will be
easily drained away. One man by
playing a hose on the upper end can
clean the whole house In a short
l time
Wnik In Each House.
In each chicken-house is a walk
about three feet wide between the
pens on each side. and from this walk
I practically everything necessary can
be done without the employee enter
ing the pens. For instance, the nests
are built In a little wall backed to-
ward the walk. The back to this wall
Is on hinges, and as the person col
lccting the eggs goes to each pen he
merely has TO open this wall or door
and there Is a row Of nests within
easy reach.
Below this row OF nests are feeding
troughs There Is running water in
each chicken-house.
And from the all-important walk
again, all the employees have 10 dc
TO let the chickens out of the pen into
the run" is to pull a lever which Is
connected by a rope with little straps
leading out into the run"
The run" for each pen is most IN
teresting Naturally. II is covered by
fine wire. There is a gate leading in
from the rear. but this is seldom used
except in the evenings, when the
chickens are driven into the house fol
the night The floors Of these runs
have been put through a hardening
process, and the surface dirt on them
ia cleaned out every two, or three
days prepared mixture OF leaves
gravel and dirt is always on this sur.
face, and every morning small
amount of grain is placed In this dir
p in order that the chickens may exer
, else themselves before breakfast Th'
first thing done I'm the morning b,
9 the employees az the farm is L
y sprinkle this grain on the dirt an
the run" Then the chickens ar
II let out on the run" where the
e scratch about for half an hour. The
e are then allowed TO re-enter tn
y, house. where breakfast is awaitin
u them
/ Mr Gambler believes that chicken
e need a great deal Of exercise and ha
e devised this plan for making ther
!. take H.