80 POULTRY FOR PROFIT 



Green range is the best solution of the exercise 

 problem. Chicks that are on range need no other 

 exercise, and one has only to watch the activity of a 

 brood of chicks two weeks old to realize what it 

 means to be deprived of this outlet for the energies. 



It ought to be possible on any farm to give chicks 

 free range. On a back lot it is more difficult, but by 

 fencing in the garden with inch-mesh wire some 

 range may be given, and young chicks, if the hen is 

 confined, will not hurt the garden. 



A patch of alfalfa for the exclusive use of chicks 

 may be easily had anywhere except on a city lot. 

 Even a small patch will do. The chicks can pick 

 their own green feed and much of their animal food 

 in the shape of insects, and they get the exercise, 

 which is beyond price. 



When green range cannot possibly be had, deep 

 scratching litter is the best substitute. At the Cali- 

 fornia experiment station brooder chicks are made 

 to dig for every grain as soon as they have learned 

 to eat. 



KEEP YOUNG STOCK GROWING 



It is not enough to get chickens well started. While 

 it is true that a chick three weeks old is half raised, 

 there is still the other half of the raising to accom- 

 plish, and failure anywhere is fatal, not to life, but 

 to profit. Lice, overheating, lack of ventilation, 

 overcrowding, insufficient or improper food, expos- 

 ure to chill winds, may any one of them give a set- 

 back from which the chick will not recover. 



Pullets that are depended on for fall eggs must 

 make steady growth from start to finish. The devel- 

 opment of the egg-producing organs is not a thing 

 apart which takes place just before the fowl begins 

 to lay. It is coincident with the development of the 



