CHAPTER XXIV. 
FEEDING FOR GROWTH. 
Chickens intended for layers and breeding stock must 
be kept growing rapidly, but will not bear forcing so 
hard as chickens meant for broilers. When they are to 
be killed and sent to market at eight or ten weeks of 
age, they will endure high feeding and restriction of 
exercise the last two weeks, while the breeding stock 
must be fed for framework and stamina. 
A farmer in one of the shore towns of Massachusetts, 
Mr. L. 8. Richards, who keeps several hundred fowls 
asa branch of his farming operations, who believes in 
the incubator for farm use, and who is very successful 
in the management of both chicks and hens, gives his 
experience as follows: 
The chicks are left in the incubator two days after 
they are hatched, then they are removed to the brooder, 
which is heated by a kerosene lamp in the rear, outside. 
The brooder is warmed by top heat, through tin pipes 
running on either side within, one in the middle and 
another across the front, all connected, of course, with 
two outlets in the rear portion. I have six brooders,- 
each lurge enough for seventy-five chicks. The first 
week I keep the temperature between 80° and 90°. When 
two weeks old 75° will answer, and at four or five weeks, 
70°. In the bottom of the brooder there is a platform 
slide resting on the lower one and coverirg it, on which 
the chicks rest. After a few days I puli out the slides 
and remove the droppings, then re-cover wih hay seed 
and replace them. They should afterward be cleaned 
every day. Have a sand floor or ground Zor tnem to 
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