1072 Rural School Leaflet. 



some more about ' raising corn, potatoes, and vegetables. Make your 

 plans to get your seeds ready soon. 



Nearly all boys and girls are interested in chickens. There should 

 be many of you who will begin raising chickens of your own — setting 

 the hen, building the coop, feeding the chicks, fixing up the henhouse 

 in the fall, and gathering and selling the eggs. If it is possible, you 

 should set eggs of pure-bred fowls. You will be more proud of your 

 flock of chickens next summer, and you may have some fine birds to 

 enter in the County Fair or a Poultry Show next fall; you should get 

 more eggs and if you sell them for setting you should receive a higher 

 price for them. Through the Poultry Department of the College of 

 Agriculture we are able to make the following offer to the boys and 

 girls of New York State: 



Thirteen eggs valued at $1.50 will be sent to a limited number of 

 the boys and girls who write the best essays on " My Experience with 

 Poultry." This composition must reach the College of Agriculture 

 by May loth and must be accompanied by a letter from the boy or 

 girl stating that he or she promises to hatch and rear the chickens with 

 as little help from others as possible and report fully to the College of 

 Agriculture by December ist on a report card which will be sent to them. 

 The contestant may have thirteen eggs of any one of the following 

 breeds: White Leghorn, Barred Plymouth Rock, White Wyandotte, 

 Silver Spangled Hamburg, or Buff Pl^'-mouth Rock, in so far as the 

 eggs can be supplied. It will be well to send a second and a third choice. 



The eggs will be sent free under the above conditions. They are 

 sent, however, express collect, that is, the expressage (probably 25 to 

 35 cents) must be paid by the boy or girl receiving the eggs. 



N9W let's do something. 



Milton Pratt Jones 



RAISING CHICKENS 

 Clara Nixon 



What to do with the eggs. — You will say, "Set them, of course," and 

 many will add, " under a hen." Those who have tried before to set 

 and care for a hen so that a good brood of healthy chickens will hatch, 

 know that it is. no slight task. 



The hen. — You will probably have the hen all ready to receive the 

 eggs when they arrive. She should be of moderate size. If too heavy, 

 she may break the eggs; if too small, she can cover only a few. She 

 should be quiet and peaceable, a hen that may be handled without 



