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cover over them to prevent chilling. Put them in the brood- 

 er heated anywhere from 95 to 100 degrees two inches from 

 the floor. See that the brooder has two inches of sand on 

 the floor. Never have straw on a brooder floor. There 

 should be a proper ventilation in the mother in the center of 

 the hover. Not a direct draught, but a perfect slow passing 

 air going and coming into the mother at all times. This 

 prevents weak lungs and consumption. The brooder should 

 be of no hot dry heat kind If the brooder has a hot dry 

 heat you will not raise half of the chicks, because the heat 

 is not natural. A moist heat is natural and if given all the 

 fresh air the chicks want, they will never be bothered with 

 weak legs, bowel troubles, etc. If you hatch 1,000 chicks 

 and only raise one-third of the number it will not pay. It 

 pays to buy a Natural Hen Brooder, a brooder that has nat- 

 ural heat and ventilation and will heat up in ten minutes 

 any time. 



Feeding Chicks. 







When the chicks are forty-eight hours old, feed them 

 their first food, dry bread crumbs. Two hours later oat 

 meal flakes, and then every three hours feed them a differ- 

 ent food. Always feed them dry food, never wet. When 

 they are three to five days old feed cracked corn, cracked 

 wheat, a little millet seed, hay seed, cracked corn roasted 

 and bread toasted; boiled milk three times a week and 

 onions cut up. Never let them drink cold water, as it 

 causes bowel trouble and cramps. 



When chicks are three days old, if the weather permits, 

 let them out doors in the air and sun. and give them free 

 run of the yard, and when fifteen days old free range. Never 

 feed until their crops are empty, and keep them scratching 

 in straw when three days old. Be sure and feed them a dif- 

 ferent grain at every meal every day. Never try to raise 

 them on one kind of feed, it does not pay and you will not 

 raise one-half of the chicks. A variety makes them grow 



