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PROFITABLE POULTRY PRODUCTION 



and need to be well nourished. The foodstuffs must 

 be highly digestible and should furnish as nearly 

 as possible every element needed by the system of 

 the chick. Large amounts of the carbonaceous, 



or energy-giving material 

 ,\ are needed, because the 



chick is a lively, energetic 

 fellow ; also an abundance 

 of protein, the blood-build- 

 ing, muscle and feather- 

 making material, and 

 enough of mineral matter 

 to build bone and help the 

 protein build the feathers. 

 Phis is best secured in 

 freshly cracked corn, a mix- 

 ture of beef scrap and 

 bran, an abundance of 

 green cut grass, sand 

 oyster shells, charcoal and crushed raw potatoes. 



TRIANGULAR COOP 

 AND YARD 



Moved daily as shown by 

 dotted lines. 



REARING CHICKS WITH HENS 



A good beginning in rearing chicks with hens is 

 to have a proper kind of coop, one with a remov- 

 able floor bottom that can be easily cleaned and 

 one that can be easily and securely closed at night 

 to guard against the various kinds of night prowlers 

 which may come around. The coop should be 

 tight, so as to remain perfectly dry inside in wet 

 weather. It should have a closed front, excepting 

 an opening about i foot square in which is fatted a 

 sliding wire screen door and also a tight floor if 

 for early chicks. 

 , The coops should be placed on new ground, 



