42 BRIGGS' SYSTEM OF 



season of the year and the weather. Here is where 

 common sense and judgment counts. Give your 

 chicks heat just as long as they want it, if you wish to 

 attain the most rapid growth, and this is what counts 

 if you wish rugged birds of extra good size, for such 

 birds, as a rule, are never sick. 



After your chicks are four weeks old, give a light 

 feeding every night of cracked corn until they are 

 matured. If they are Leghorns, this can be kept up 

 as long as you own them, with grand results. 



I am now going to give you the secret of success in 

 raising your chicks and putting them over the danger 

 period, especially Leghorns, which is from twenty 

 to forty days old. This is raising them nature's way. 



In front of my colony house brooders, say six 

 feet, I plow a good big strip the entire length of all 

 my brooders. I do this the day chicks begin to hatch, 

 and I sow this lightly with oats. By the time the 

 chicks come out of their brooders, the oats are nicely 

 sprouted. I let the chicks out of the colony brooders 

 the third day, about ten a. m., if weather is nice. The 

 next day I let tlicm out, I run the harrow over the 

 ground and sow more oats. Every day after this, I 

 harrow this ground. And I sow more oats every 

 other da}'. The result the chicks keep at work from 

 morning until night, and never get time to become 

 sick. 



You ought to see them grow under this system. 

 I consider this the onlv perfect wav to raise chicks, 

 and the only successful way. Pullets raised this way 

 should lay at four to five months of age. 



As soon as Ihey weigh two pounds each, or near 

 this weight, the cockerels should be marketed — excepi 

 what you use for breeders — and these should be 

 separated from the pullets, in order to mature them 

 fine. 



The pullets will also mature into a much finer 

 size if separated from the cockerels. 



If the eggs which your chickens are hatched from 

 are produced under my system you should have no 



