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fast and keeps them healthy. When the chicks are four 

 'weeks old keep them out doors, that is, brooders and all, 

 and "when they are six weeks old, keep a box of cracked corn 

 before them all the time and they will grow like weeds, will 

 soon tire of cracked corn and will look for bugs and worms. 

 If they don't get enough on the range they will come to 

 their cracked corn and will not be hungry. They will keep 

 growing and will not get fat. They always have an appe- 

 tite, like a young duck, and eat all the day long, but in do- 

 ing this give them free range, not yarded. 



Look for head lice and use gasoline on their heads and 

 necks. Do this every month, and you will be surprised to 

 see those chicks grow. When they are seven to eight weeks 

 old they will not need any more brooder heat, and should 

 be put in a roosting coop or in a combination brooder and 

 roosting coop as shown on the blue print. This coop is the 

 best roosting coop yet placed on the market. You will see 

 it has two stories, the upper and lower each about eighteen 

 inches high, and a round hover, with cloth the same as a 

 brooder hover. This is used for chicks six to ten weeks old. 

 The mother is forty inches in diameter, and has perfect ven- 

 tilation. Their own animal heat keeps them warm. This 

 brooder will house 100 or more up to ten weeks old. When 

 they are ten weeks old, train them to go up to the top floor, 

 on the roosts and put lath over the doors so that the older 

 chicks cannot go through into the lower floor. In this way 

 you can keep the coops going all summer. You can make a 

 lot of them if you intend raising a lot of poultry and you 

 will never like anything better on the farm than this coop. 

 You can keep pullets in this coop until late fall and raise 

 them healthy. They will not sweat and catch cold as there 

 is plenty of air around roosts. The coop is rain proof, and 

 cats and minks cannot get at the chicks. The greatest 

 blunders have been made on chicks after they were eight 

 weeks old. Poultry breeders and farmers let them hunt 

 their own roosting place. Generally they all go into a box 

 or barrel, fifty to 100 in a small space. They crowd to keep 



