A FEW THINGS TO REMEMBER 



All oats will not grow satisfactory, and if you get 

 some that will not nearly all grow, try another lot of 

 another dealer, for when they grow satisfactory you 

 will have a complete mass of roots and sprouts, which 

 should be I to I J4 inches long. 



Have several large lots of oats growing for a large 

 plant, and do not get out of them, for this is your main 

 feed for producing eggs and for growing chicks. There 

 is nothing like it. Give them all they will take three 

 times a day, sure, as they live and grow on this as they 

 will on nothing else, and it forms fully 80 per cent, of 

 their rations after they are a week old. 



If you fail to make the success you expect under this 

 system, write me, enclosing stamp, and I will straighten 

 you out, for you cannot go wrong if you follow my in- 

 structions to the letter. 



If your little chicks have board floors you should 

 clean their pens out every four days, sure, and put the 

 leavings in runs of your old hens ; they will clean up all 

 seeds and oats not eaten by chicks. Cover your floor 

 lightly with clover; there is nothing as good. 



Your Leghorn puHets should lay at five months of 

 age, sure, if you have fed and cared for them as laid 

 down in this book. If they do not, you have failed to 

 carry out some important part, or your stock is not the 

 laying kind. 



A poor memory is a poor thing for a poultry man, and 

 will put you out of business. By all means put your 



83 



