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Chicks. 



Range. 



Housed or 

 Laying. 



6 eggs, 1 loaf of bread, 1 pound grit, 1 to 3 days. 



7 pounds corn meal, 5 pounds wheat middlings, 4 pounds 

 bran, 2 pounds alfalfa, 8 per cent beef scrap. Wet 

 mash in morning after three to eight weeks. 



1 part steel cut oats, 1 part Kaffir corn (cracked). 

 1 part fine cracked corn, 3 parts cracked wheat, fed 

 from 2 weeks to 10 or 12 w r eeks. 



10 to 12 weeks up to housing time, 



1 part oats, 2 parts cracked corn, 3 parts wheat. 



Mash (dry) 8 weeks to housing time. 



7 pounds corn meal, 5 pounds w r heat middlings, 4 



pounds wheat bran, 2 pounds cut alfalfa, 8 per cent 



beef scrap or 1.44 pounds. 



10 pounds cracked corn, 10 pounds wheat, 5 pounds 



oats, fed in deep litter of straw. 

 Dry mash in hoppers, 7 pounds corn meal, 5 pounds 



wheat middlings. 

 4 pounds bran, 2 pounds cut alfalfa, 1 pound 0. P. meal, 



15 per cent beef scrap or 2.85 pounds. 



METHOD OF PROCEDURE FOR THE THREE YEARS. 



From the first of January there is no time to be wasted when one 

 is intending to start a poultry farm. The first thing to do is to find 

 out what you are after, then plan it out carefully in detail. 



I intend first to get a line on some good utility stock with the 

 prices right. As I have laid foundations in January, I shall try to get 

 ready two pens of my breeding house to house these birds, which I 

 intend buying, about sixty in number, to start out with. I shall try 

 to have them at work by the first of February ; giving them two weeks 

 rest after their trip, which I hope will be short, for the benefit of the 

 birds, after which time I hope to get a fifty per cent production. 



By the first of March the dwelling house ought to be very nearly 

 finished so as to enable me to place my incubators in the basement, 

 where the hatching will be done for the first three years. 



The next job on hand are the colony houses which are to be used 

 in brooding and rearing the chicks, six in number. 



Buying in two of the best standard incubators, 390 egg capacity, 

 costing less than ten cents per egg, and starting my first hatch on the 

 first of March and the next hatch two weeks later, and so on until I 

 have at least 1,200 chicks, or rather filling the six colony houses, 

 with the following results from each hatch : February, fertility 

 seventy-five per cent, hatching seventy-five per cent, rearing seventy- 

 five per cent hatched first lot two hundred and nineteen chicks and 

 rearing one hundred and sixty-five; second hatch, March, fertility 

 ninety per cent, hatching eighty per cent two hundred and eighty 

 chicks, rearing seventy-five per cent two hundred and twenty chicks ; 

 third hatch will be the same, hatching two hundred and eighty and 

 rearing two hundred and twenty ; fourth hatch, April, fertility ninety 

 per cent; hatching eighty per cent two hundred and eighty chicks, 

 rearing two hundred and twenty ; fifth hatch the same fertility, hatch- 

 ing eighty per cent two hundred and eighty chicks, rearing two 

 hundred and twenty, giving a total of 1,339 hatched and rearing 1,- 

 045, or approximately about three eggs to each pullet reared. 



