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Tim says, every self-respecting fowl wants a chance 

 once a day to put her foot or terra firma. It is nature's 

 way. I am glad to note that the most successful 

 poultry keepers of today do not believe in flocks of 

 more than 100 birds, and the majority run twenty five 

 and even less fowls to a colony. 



The same is true in brooding chicks. I never kept 

 more than fifty chicks in an individual brooder, and 

 yet only a stone's throw from my farm are men who 

 are keeping 500 chicks in one flock. I do not wish to 

 criticise, but I would like to have some disinterested 

 person compare the youngsters reared by the wholesale 

 with those hovered under more natural conditions, and 

 note the vigor in the latter and the forlorn look in the 

 former. 



The baby chick business has made wonderful 

 strides the past few years. The invention and practi- 

 cal use of mammoth incubators (warmed by hot water 

 pipes heated by coal-burning stoves) has been a boon, 

 not only to the baby or day-old chick industry, but to 

 raising market poultry as well. Where these chicks 



can reach their 

 destinations in 

 a time not 

 longer than a 

 day and a 

 night, I look 

 upon their pur- 

 chase as a wise 

 act. But where 

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