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less warm water each morning. Dur- 

 ing the summer months I did not find 

 it necessary to put any attraction in 

 the brooders as the chicks seemed 

 warm enough from the first to spend 

 the entire day in the sun. 



This account from Mrs. G. will in- 

 terest and help many of our readers. 



The brooders are those made by 

 Mr. Hammons of the Mammoth Pa- 

 cific Poultry Plant at Ingleside, Cali- 

 fornia. 



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How Many Chickens to Keep on a 

 City Lot Will you kindly tell me 

 how many chickens can be kept on a 

 city lot seventy-five by a hundred 

 and eighty feet? Do you think chick- 

 ens will lay well during the rainy sea- 

 son in Seattle, Wash., if they are 

 properly fed and housed? How big 

 a house do we need for fifty chickens? 



Last September we bought thirty 

 Plymouth Rock hens and thirty pul- 

 lets. We got from ten to sixteen eggs 

 from the hens per day, until about the 

 middle of December, when they began 

 to fall off. We are still getting that 

 amount, but half of them are from the 

 pullets. Do you think they are doing 

 as well as we could expect? Mrs. 

 L. E. S. 



Answer In your climate it would 

 very much depend upon the shelter 

 from the rain that you can give the 

 chickens. Fifty chickens should be 

 divided into two pens with two 

 houses. Each house not less than ten 

 by twelve feet in size. I would ad- 

 vise a good scratching pen to be made 

 either adjoining the house and cov- 

 ered with a roof, or else make the 

 scratching pen to extend underneath 

 the dropping boards. You might 

 keep several hundred hens upon land 

 75 x 180 feet, if you have ample house 

 room for them so they would be well 

 sheltered from the rain. Hens that 

 are wet every day will not lay well. 

 Your fowls are doing well consider- 

 ing the wet weather you are having. 



How Many on Two Acres I have 

 two acres of land, of which I will have 

 a hundred feet by one hundred feet 

 for an alfalfa patch, the rest for 

 chickens to run around and have the 

 patch for them to feed on for an hour 

 or so before going to roost. Kindly 

 let me know how many chickens I 

 can raise on the two acres at the 

 most. M. J. P. 



Answer I think you can keep a 

 thousand chickens on your two acres. 



You must be careful not to have more 

 than fifty to roost in one house. It 

 is the crowded condition of houses at 

 night that brings trouble and disease. 

 Be sure to give them shade during 

 the day and plenty of good fresh wa- 

 ter, besides, of course, the balanced 

 ration. Allow them two hours a day 

 on the alfalfa patch. 



Five Acres Will you kindly tell me 

 how many White Leghorns I can suc- 

 cessfully raise on five acres of land? 

 I want to grow alfalfa and some vege- 

 tables for feed. 



Will you also tell me if I can hatch 

 turkeys in an incubator? J. W. L. 



Answer You can raise a large 

 number of Leghorns on five acres of 

 land. I know one party that has 

 3,000 Leghorns on three acres, but 

 it entirely depends upon knowing how 

 to do and, doing it right. Better be- 

 gin with a small number and when 

 you succeed with those, increase your 

 flock. 



Turkeys can be hatched in an in- 

 cubator and raised in a brooder, but 

 must be kept entirely separate from 

 chickens or they will die. 



Yard Room I want to raise about 

 60 pullets for next winter. I have 

 about a hundred chicks hatched out. 

 All the yard room I can spare is on a 

 town lot about 50x75 feet. Do you 

 think this would be enough room for 

 them? Mrs. J. F. Y. 



Answer It all depends upon the 

 care you give them; if you can sup- 

 ply them with shade, plenty of green 

 food, clean water and a good scratch- 

 ing place and the proper food, it will 

 be plenty large enough. Be sure to 

 keep them clean and free from mites 

 and lice. 



Burglar Alarm I refer to the men- 

 tion made by you of an electric burg- 



