The plant in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate consists of two long one-story buildings and several fenced yards. Windows line the sides of the buildings and ventilators top the roofs. A man holding a bucket stands outside the building at the right feeding the chickens.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Fourteenth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the Ingleside Hospital for the Insane" In Second Biennial Report of the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions to the Governor and Legislature of the State of Nebraska for the Biennium Ending November 30, 1916 (Lincoln: Nebraska Board of Commissioners of State Institutions, 1914), plate between pp. 224-225.
Historical Notes
In the 1915-1916 biennium 1,336 dozen eggs were produced and 840 chickens were consumed.
