CONTENTS 



CHAPTER VI 

 FEBRUARY 



PAOI 



The incubator Setting it up on arrival Correct adjust- 

 ment Heating and regulating Testing eggs 

 Hay instead of roosts for cold nights Making brood 

 coops, drinking fountains, feed troughs Planning 

 the garden List of seeds, vegetable and flower 

 Nursery boxes Starting flower seeds and potatoes 

 in the house Hastening rhubarb and asparagus in 

 the garden 116 



CHAPTER VII 



MARCH 



My first experience with incubator chicks Brooders ; 

 advantage of individual machines Preparing for 

 the motherless babies Food for the first twenty 

 days Setting hens How to know a broody hen 

 Removing from the chicken-house to special coop for 

 the period of incubation Removing the babies 

 Placing Mrs. Biddy and her family in the brood coop 

 The right consistency of mould for ploughing 

 Transplanting seedlings to larger boxes Starting 

 tender vegetables in the house Planting potatoes ; 

 how to cut the tubers Buying and setting out dor- 

 mant trees 141 



CHAPTER VIII 

 APRIL 



Launcelot Gobbo, our first gander Geese : breeding, feed- 

 ing, hatching Care of goslings and young ducks 



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