FIG. 73-Plan for Cold Storage House for Poultry 74-Buildings for Turkeys 75-Improved Duckhouse 76-Duckhouse and Shed 77-Pigeon Loft and Interior 78-House for Poultry and Pigeons 79-Ground Plan for Combination House 80-Glass-Roofed Coops INTRODUCTION The aim of this book is to give designs of sufficient variety to suit conditions everywhere. Few requests come more often to the office of a poultry editor than those asking designs and directions for some part of a poultry plant. The number and variety of such requirements is surprising. On the other hand, the very diversity of conditions which create the demand has also developed a supply. A multitude of houses and coops of differing styles have been designed by ingenious poultry keepers in accord with their experience and to meet local conditions. This little volume aims to bring together these two classes, the intending builders and those who have already built successfully. It is thought that the one hundred designs of such wide range of style, cost and adaptation will meet all requirements. Many of the designs originally appeared in American Agriculturist weeklies in response to definite requests. The plans are carefully selected from a much larger number, and only those are given which are in successful use and which are adapted to the needs of practical poultry keepers; pretentious or overornamental and elaborate affairs having been excluded. Wherever thought necessary or desirable, complete specifications of cost and construction have been included, so that the structures may be put up by anyone who can handle saw and hammer. |