fatter and plumper than others. It is ridiculous to 

 talk of fattening pen broilers. 



Would any sane man undertake to fatten a 

 young pig if he wanted it to grow and put on flesh ? 

 Would you fatten or try to fatten any stock that 

 you wished to grow ? 



You must make bone and muscle first, then put 

 on flesh. To do this you must keep your chicks 

 (or other stock) in good health. By overloading 

 man, beast or fowl with unnatural food you are 

 almost sure to disarrange the system ; and soft, 

 sloppy food is not the natural food of chicks or 

 fowls. If you are determined to give soft food to 

 chicks under four weeks old, bake corn cake in 

 the oven, and make it so that it will crumble. 



Never fe^d boiled eggs to chicks. 



OLD FOWLS AND YOUNG CHICKS. 



Keep old fowls away from the brooders and 

 brooding houses and runs where incubator chicks 

 are kept, and do not mix the chicks which were 

 hatched under hens with those hatched in incuba- 

 tors, because the chances are nine to one that lice 

 or mites will be communicated to the latter. 



Chicks hatched in incubators are (cleanliness hav- 

 ing been observed) free from vermin ; but we have 

 known a whole section of brooder houses to be 

 filled with lice by placing a single brood of eleven 

 chicks, whose mother died, in a brooder with other 

 chicks. The new comers were not suspected of 

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