NATURE AND IT& 



clubs and banquets. A forty acre farm is all you will need, 

 with the houses one hundred yards or more apart. 



Fertile Eggs in Winter. 



It is impossible to get a good percentage of fertile eggs 

 in winter, and those that are fertile hatch weakly chicks. 

 It is against nature to hatch them in winter. The eggs will 

 be most fertile in April and May, and that is the time when 

 the wild birds commence to hatch their young. It is only a 

 waste of time to hatch in winter. The best time is in March, 

 April and May. The chicks will do well then, because they 

 will have the outdoor air. live in the grass, and will be busy 

 looking for bugs, worms, etc. The warm air and sun makes 

 them grow and do well. Only a small percentage of them 

 will die at this time of the year. Don't try to go against 

 nature. You will fail if you do. 



When you save the eggs for hatching, feed corn and 

 oats. Corn makes strong, rich, yellow yolks, and the chicks 

 will be strong. Fresh cracked bone fed to the hens at this 

 time will help to make them lay fertile eggs. Feed this 

 cracked bone only twice a week, and only one to two pounds 

 for fifty hens. The fresh, raw meat and bone causes worms, 

 and liver diseases, roup and distemper, if you over feed. 



Fattening Poultry. 



To fatten for the market you should have them in good 

 flesh, and it will then be easy to fatten them. Feed them 

 on cooked cornmeal and buckwheat. Mix charcoal in the 

 feed. Cooked beans are good flesh producers, and a little oil 

 meal should be mixed in with it. Never over feed, and the 

 first few days give them only half enough to eat. Then for 

 the rest of ten days, feed them heavily, but never leave any 

 food before them. Fatten them only twelve to fourteen 

 days. If you fatten them any longer they will get sick and 

 run down. 



