POULTRY RAISING 



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than fed the old way, stuffed with mashes. When fed 

 the old way you will lose a large number with colds and 

 roup, and have but few well chickens to sell. 



Just a word here in growing your birds for roasters. 

 Either good wheat screenings or wheat which I feed 

 must be kept before them all the time; also a first-class 

 beef scrap and grit, charcoal, and good fresh water. 

 And they should have one good feeding of processed oats 

 about 9 a. m. — all they will eat. At night give all the 

 cracked corn they will take, and you will grow roasters 

 that will be a credit to you, and sickness among them 

 will not be known, and your profit will surprise you. 



But you will find it to your advantage to market them 

 as broilers as long as they bring 25 cents a pound and 

 more. 



A pan of corn meal, set where they can eat all they 

 want whenever they want it, will also fatten them nicely. 

 Do not wet it, but let them eat it dry. 



Under these conditions only can broilers be made to 

 pay a profit, and you can raise them well into the sum- 

 mer on this free-range system of cultivating the ground. 

 But just as soon as you fail to raise 80 per cent of your 

 hatch, better stop and sell your eggs. 



