54 BRIGGS' SYSTEM OF 



anywhere from 80 to 95 degrees. This, you know, is a 

 big variation; but strong, healthy chicks can stand a lot 

 and not get sick. Once they get sick, they will bunch up, 

 and this is the last of them, for they can die about as fast 

 as you can hatch them. 



You will find most of the big breeders, who are in 

 the fancy stock raising, all use hens for hatching and 

 raising them, and get all their neighbors to hatch and 

 raise for them, for they cannot hatch them and raise them 

 with incubators and brooders, just because their breeders 

 are fed on mashes, so as to get a big yield to supply 

 their large trade in eggs for hatching. Nearly all the 

 eggs sent out for hatching by the single settings, at a big 

 price, always are hatched by the old hen and raised by 

 them on free range, which will pull them through if any- 

 thing will. 



Unier my system of feeding eggs laid here in January 

 are running 90 per cent fertile, and have hatched as high 

 as 93:Kt per cent of fertile eggs. 



Other years' chicks, weak and sickly, almost impossi- 

 ble to raise, which shows you without a question that it 

 all lies in the feed. 



You can see at a glance why every one who has tried 

 the broiler business as a business has failed at it. I 

 defy any one to find a profitable broiler plant, but I am 

 satisfied it can be made to pay under my system of feed- 

 ing and in no other way yet known at the present time. 



I want to say to you broiler men, with your long- 

 piped houses, give them one more trial with eggs pro- 

 duced under my system of feeding and your troubles 

 are over. 



From January until June you can hatch broilers at a 

 splendid profit under this system, for you can grow your 

 later hatches up and make roasters of them at a grand 

 profit, for under this system of feeding your birds will 

 grow very rapidly and develop fully one-third quicker 



