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Birdcrazy:
Don, I would have wanted one of those free $1.25 air rifles on page 41, but then I wasn't a boy in 1915. In fact my dad was only one year old Oct 31,1915!
Don:
Gordon, I don't know what the typical farmstead netted a hundred years ago, but I'm sure those prices were higher than what they could cobble together on the farm. But evidently there was a market for the products. Poultry shows were probably very important to farms back before they were just a hobby too. I was pleased to see the Campines, Langshans and Anconas advertised among all the colors of leghorns, rocks and Wyandottes too.
Another book about poultry housing, brooders and other equipment.
https://books.google.com/books?id=QlTiAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=poultry+buildings&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO-PD7n8_mAhUDCc0KHbg1ACsQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=poultry%20buildings&f=false
Here are various size farm flock buildings, lots of dimensions. The area below the roosts should remain open for flock movement, either by dropping board or with a sloped collection board to a clean out door at the back.
https://books.google.com/books?id=KUkiAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA11&dq=poultry+buildings&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO-PD7n8_mAhUDCc0KHbg1ACsQ6AEILDAB#v=onepage&q=poultry%20buildings&f=false
Don:
Many farms at the turn of the 20th century kept laying flocks in portable houses such as the one illustrated below. And some land grant universities still show plenty of the house designs on their sites. Lots of coop options shown at the link below for various flock sizes and uses.
https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/extension-aben/buildingplans/poultry
North Dakota State University Agriculture Communication
Dept. 7070
Morrill 7, P.O. Box 6050
Fargo, ND 58108-6050
Various titles for buildings and animal species and various contributing vendors/ persons and organizations
https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/aben-plans/nd727-15-1.pdf
This is the next barn I Really need to build, Univ. of Maryland.....
https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/aben-plans/6036.pdf
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