HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



SuceeMMful Poultry Tour 



Continued from page 2. column 3 

 producing results and then cockei'els 

 which are full brothers to his high pro- 

 ducing pullets are used to intensify this 

 blood through the entire flock. 



The birds not put into the trap nest 

 house are culled constantly. These birds 

 are culled heavily from June till Decem- 

 ber so that only the high producers are 

 kept over as breeders in his sales stock 

 house. On this plant too chickens are 

 raised on new land each to avoid infec- 

 tious diseases. 



Wheeler Rotates Range 



Leaving Bartlett's, the crowd went to 

 Chas. Wheeler's in Dana. Mr. Wheeler's 

 plant is one of the more common type 

 in that he raises his own stock. Instead 

 of just selling eggs, broilers and fowl, he 

 increased his business by selling day-old 

 chicks. Every year the chickens are 

 grown on new land. Several years ago 

 the plant became heavily infected with 

 worms, but at the present time by grow- 

 ing chicks on one piece of ground but 

 once in three of four years, this trouble 

 has been greatly decreased. A bird was 

 autopsied here and showed no signs of 

 the common round worm which is usu- 

 ally associated with paralysis in this sec- 

 tion, but did show signs of being fed 

 a ration too rich in protein. 



Lego's Range Quarantined 



Henry Lego's plant in Greenwich was 

 visited. Mr. Lego and his son Fred are 

 raising 3,000 chicks this year under strict 

 quarantine. Worms have caused great 

 loss on this plant for the last several 

 years, so this year the chickens were put 

 on a piece of ground where no chickens 

 have been raised before. Then every time 

 that anyone enters the range, they must 

 walk through a pan of disinfectant so as 

 to keep infection out. 



On this plant, the birds are fed entirely 

 by the hopper method having dry mash 

 and cracked corn constantly before them. 

 The watering system is a work of art as 

 well as a labor saver. A brook runs some 

 distance from the range and in this is 

 installed a force pump purchased through 

 a mail order house for $5.02. In the 

 center of the range is a .50 gallon barrel 

 on an elevated platform. The pump and 

 the barrel are connected by a 3 inch pipe. 

 It takes about 10 minutes to pump the 

 barrel full. From the barrel, i5 inch gas 

 pipe runs to every yard and by pet cocks 

 the water is allowed to drip into watering 

 troughs. In this way the 3,000 chicks 

 have been watered in 20 minutes every 

 day. 



Poor House Made (jood 



Another interesting feature of the 

 Lego's plant is the way houses have been 

 remodeled. The original houses were 

 twelve feet deep by forty-eight feet long, 



with a shed roof. Birds were constantly 

 having colds in these houses .^o they were 

 built out eight feet in front and a roof 

 slanting front was put on. Then the old 

 front was removed and the new front has 

 an opening about three feet from the floor 

 across the entire front. Last year this 

 gave pi-oper ventilation and the birds 

 came through without colds. The re- 

 modeled houses look very much like the 

 plans furnished by the Mass. Agricultural 

 College. In these houses Mr. Lego has 



2 inch mesh hen wire under the roosts 

 so that the birds cannot become reinfected 

 with worms from this source. 



The photograph on the fir.st page shows 

 the group of people taking the trip. A 

 fine, though dusty time was had by all. 

 Another year we hope to run another 

 similar trip in another part of the county. 

 After the trip, all felt tired and dusty, 

 but comments showed that all felt it was 

 a profitable trip. 



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