48 BRIGGS' SYSTEM OF 



ing out the hulls every time. And again at about 4 p. m. 

 [ see that they have just all the}- can eat, and I wish you 

 could see them grow. It is a pleasure to raise chickens 

 this way where sickness is scarcely known. 



After three weeks change from chick food to a good 

 ijuality of wheat screenings, which must also be kept 

 before them from then on as long as you own them. It 

 is giving grand results, and I know of nothing that can 

 in any way compare with it for growing young chicks, 

 and nothing so cheap as this screenings and processed 

 oats. If you cannot get good screenings use wheat. 



After three days old your chicks should always have 

 before them grit, charcoal, beef scraps, chick food, until 

 you change for wheat screenings or wheat, and water to 

 drink — and good, clean, fresh water is very important — 

 in fact, thousands of chickens are lost every year through 

 dirty water and filthy drinking dishes, as disease starts 

 in the drinking fountains in many cases. 



If your fountains are not kept clean, and if you are not 

 particular and wash out your fountains every time you 

 fill them, slime collects on the inside, and I consider this 

 rank poison to the chickens. 



The best fountain you can get is the two-piece earthen 

 fountain, which keeps the water cool and clean. I would 

 not use any other kind under any circumstances. If you 

 can yard >'our little chicks on a stream of water, so 

 much the better, and much labor is saved. 



A\'hen your little chicks are first put out, they should 

 be looked after several times a day, and you must see 

 that they do not get chilled. 



Keep your brooder at 95 degrees first five days, then 

 it should be lowered to 90 degrees, after two weeks 

 to 85 degrees, and after three we'eks to 80 degrees and 

 gradually harden them off, depending on the season of 

 the year and the weather. Here is where common sense 



