40 BRIGGS' SYSTEM OF 



one-half foot fence of one inch mesh wire netting; 

 then another row of brooders, about eight feet from 

 this fence ; then another fence same as the otlier. 



It makes no diflference how many brooders on a 

 line, twenty could be handled all right if they were all 

 filled with chicks at near the same time. 



If the field was near level, they would equalize 

 themselves all right in the brooders. 



You can safely put seventy-five chicks in each 

 brooder and should have no trouble in raising seventy 

 of them to maturity if you follow my instructions to 

 the letter. 



For feed and care, I first grind fine all egg shells 

 they hatch from, and feed these for first three days, 

 putting chick feed before them the second day. You 

 must see that they are never out of feed again as long 

 as you own them. Here is one of the secrets of suc- 

 cess, for if your chicks, always have free access to 

 feed — they will never over eat and die of indigestion. 

 As soon as you put them out, give them fine grit and 

 fine charcoal, also water that is lukewarm, and your 

 egg shells, and, as I said next day put chick feed be- 

 fore them. 



On the third day also put beef scraps before them 

 and see that they are never without it. Begin feeding 

 them processed oats, same as you do your hens — they 

 will quickly take to it and eat off all the roots and 

 sprouts, leaving nothing but the hulls. Feed them all 

 the processed oats they will take from then on, say 

 four or five times a day. Do not be afraid, for they 

 cannot over-eat of it, and remember this costs only 

 eight or ten cents a bushel. You can thus see how 

 cheap you can raise your chicks. 



Remember from the third day on your chicks 

 must have always before them water, chick feed, grit, 

 charcoal and beef scrap; also feed several times a day 

 all the processed oats they can eat. I generally set a 

 panful in the pen first thing in the morning and again 

 at noon, dumping out the hulls every time. And 

 again at about 4 p. m. I see that they have just all 



