76 POULTRY APPLIANCES AND HANDICRAFT 



clean the board after each meal. Get them out of 

 doors the first week if possible during the midday sun. 

 Give bits of onion or cabbage to keep them busy while 

 out of doors. When they stop running or lose in- 

 terest, take them in again. 



After the first week give three feeds daily of shorts 

 and corn meal scraped to a crumbly mass. In one 

 feed put one-sixth beef scraps, in the other two feeds 

 put onions or cabbage chopped fine and spread over 

 the plates of dough. For other feeds during the day- 

 make a mound of sand, putting in with it meal to be 

 scratched for and eaten as soon as light. Wheat, corn 

 and barley, all cracked, are good for a feed at noon and 

 the last feed at night. It is a good plan to store sods 

 of grass for the first two hatches, as the earth is quite 

 bare when they come out. Sow the yards and runs to 

 rye for late hatches. The brooder must be cleaned 

 out under the pipes every day, putting in clean sand. 

 Clean out the entire pen when the brood is changed 

 into another pen. 



Very clear and practical directions are sent by 

 L. Richards, who has used incubator and brooders 

 with great success on his Massachusetts farm: 



"The chicks are left in the incubator two days after 

 they are hatched, then they are removed to the 

 brooder, which is heated by a kerosene lamp in the 

 rear, outside. The brooder is warmed by top heat, 

 through tin pipes running on either side within, one 

 in the middle and another across the front, all con- 

 nected, of course, with two outlets in the rear portion. 

 I have six brooders, each large enough for seventy- 

 five chicks. The first week I keep the temperature 

 between eighty degrees and ninety degrees. When 

 two weeks old seventy-five degrees will answer, and at 

 four or five weeks, seventy degrees. In the bottom of 

 the brooder there is a platform slide resting on the 

 lower one and covering it, on which the chicks rest. 



