Practical Farm Buildings: Plans and Suggestions

"Practical Farm Buildings: Plans and Suggestions" by Andrew Frederick Hunter is an early 20th-century manual providing farmers with architectural designs and building tips, particularly for poultry-related buildings. It acts as a guide for farmers wanting to construct or modify buildings that improve the health and productivity of their poultry, especially chickens. Recognizing the favorable response to a previous version, the book broadens its scope with more designs and ideas to meet different demands, underscoring picking good locations for buildings, most importantly for chicken coops, and lays out building rules, such as keeping structures dry and letting in lots of sunlight. Initial parts address important design aspects ensuring poultry health and happiness, stressing ways to build useful, working farm buildings.