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VI. Feeding Young Chicks. 

 Chicks require no food for the first twenty-four hours after hatching 

 The second day the food should be haid boiled eggs. Then bread and milk 

 may be allowed. The fourth day, and thereafter, feed equal parts of 

 oatmeal and coriimeal cooked together with milk. Feed five times a day 

 until the chickens begin to feather. Thereafter four times a day. When 

 the chicks are ten or twelve days old they may have screenings of wheat, 

 cracked corn, gravel, finely powdered oyster shell, bone meal, and clean 

 water where they can always take it. The food must be varied; mashed 

 potatoes, chopped onions, cabbage, or lettioe should form part of the 

 food, and in lieu of insects give them finely minced meat. Do not crowd 

 them. Keep them in small lots. Feed in vessels that may be kept clean, 

 .-.nd let the water always be pure. 



VH. How to Make an Incubator. 

 We have been at some considerable trouble to lay before our readers 

 some practicable plan by which a common sense incubator could be made 

 on the farm, by means of the village carpenter and tinman. In corres- 

 pondence with Mr. P. H. Jacobs, a gentleman who is an acknowledged 

 authority on poultry, we learned that his facile pencil had contributed 

 to the Farm and Garden^ of Philadelphia, drawings, of not only incu- 

 bators, but of brooders as well. A letter from Mr. Jacobs to the editor 

 of the Farm and Garden^ brought the response back, we were welcome 

 to the cuts and descriptive matter to make the whole intelligible. Tiie 

 offer was accepted with thanks for the courtesy, and thus we are enabled 

 to lay before our readers the latest im[)rovement in practical artificial 

 incubation and brooding of chickens. Of course there are many good 

 incubators and brooders patented and otherwise. The reader can avail 

 himself of these upon investigation, but the following will fill the bill in 

 a common sense way. It is so fully illustrated, that the description an- 

 nexed will be all that is required to make the whole quite intelligible, and 

 is as follows : 



First, get good boards, 1 inch thick and 1 foot 

 wide. Cut them 46 inches long for your floor, and 

 have the floor 42 inches wide. Place four posts, 

 which are 24 inches high, at each corner (figure 1) 

 marked A A A Ay and two posts {B B) in front, 

 the two front posts to be 18 inches high. Make 

 posts of 2x3 strips and nail them securely to the 

 floor. Fasten the floor boards together by strips 

 underneath, using as many as preferred. The 

 PIG. 1. INNER BOX. four comcr posts are for your outcr box. This box, 

 when finished, is 4 feet long: and 44 inches wide, outside, provided it is 



