Poultry for Profit (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: P. H. Jacobs
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ISBN: 9781330556948
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Excerpt from Poultry for Profit We must make every dollar go as far as possible, and while constructing cheap buildings, they must be dry, warm and light. The first consideration is how to get the greatest surface space for the least outlay. We present, therefore, Fig. 1, which, while it may not be exactly according to the most approved style, has some advantages that are very important, and conveys some very good ideas. The house is 10x10, with three greenhouse sashes facing the south. Each sash is three feet wide and six feet long, and they cost, usually, about three dollars each. Now, while we have ten feet each way, in the house proper, making 100 square feet, we also have the room under the sashes, which is 4x10, or 40 square feet, the entire surface being 140 square feet, or equivalent to a house 10x14 feet, while the roof is built over a surface of 10x10 feet only, the glass serving in the capacity of a roof to the extended portion, and is also so inclined as to allow the heat and light of the sun to pass in to a distance under the main section, as well as directly down upon the four feet extending forward. The cost of the glass is partly saved by the shingles that would be necessary for covering a roof 10x14 feet instead of 10x10 feet, as it may be observed glass would be necessary, also, for a house 10x14 feet. Before building the house, or fixing upon the size, first determine how the fowls are to be kept. We would suggest that instead of adopting the above size, we would build a house 8x16 feet, so as to best utilize 16-feet boards, with two sections to the house, making each section 8x8 feet, and with a cock and ten hens to a section, which is two cocks and twenty hens to a house 8x16 feet. Instead of three sashes, there need be only two, one to each section, which gives the room on the floor, however, for each section 8x12 feet (instead of 8x8 feet). The reason for so doing is that in the winter, when the weather may be severe at times, the hens may be kept in doors, and have plenty of room, as that portion under the sash will be as serviceable as that under the main portion. In Fig. 2 we show how a single sash may be arranged, and also how a still cheaper house may be constructed. Fig. 1, alluded to, is five feet from the eaves to the ground, the peak being eight feet from the ground. Fig. 2 should be made 10x10 feet, the peak being seven feet from the ground. At the bottom is a board one foot high, though it may be two feet if preferred. The door is at the right, and ample room may be had inside for those who may have to enter to collect eggs or clean the house. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.