The very cordial appreciation which has met the first edition of our
book, “Practical Farm Buildings,” makes it seem wise to prepare a
larger and more complete book, and we hope you will find some of these
plans and suggestions adapted for your own particular requirements.
Farm-building plans are as variable, almost, as is the individuality
of those building and using them, and in making this selection, we
have been guided by the practical merits of the designs, including
only such as have proved their value by constant use on the farm. In
poultry buildings it has been our special purpose to present plans
which illustrate the marked tendency of recent years, which has been to
open up the houses to sunshine and fresh air; a tendency which makes
conditions more wholesome and promotes the good health and greater
profitableness of the flocks.
Our editor, Mr. Hunter, wishes here to fully acknowledge his
indebtedness to Bulletin No. 16 of the Cornell Reading Course for
Farmers, entitled, “Building Poultry Houses,” also Farmers’ Bulletin
No. 141 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, entitled, “Poultry
Raising on the Farm,” from which he borrows many of the hints and
suggestions here given. Some of the poultry plans are taken, or
adapted, from several poultry periodicals and Experiment Station
Bulletins, and for their kind courtesy our thanks are tendered.
F. W. BIRD & SON.
EAST WALPOLE, MASS., U. S. A.