44 BRIGGS' SYSTEM OF 



feet plank, and make your house eight feet wide and 

 sixteen feet long, outside measure, in each case. Make 

 your house four feet high at eaves, same as your lay- 

 ing houses. For the roof, saw a sixteen feet board in 

 three pieces, and saw rafters five feet one inch long. 

 Build it the same as laying houses, with wire netting 

 partition, and you have an ideal house for the busi- 

 ness. Put in windows the same size as you use for 

 your laying houses, one in each side in center of each 

 department, also a slide under each window for letting 

 them out. 



Put in each side a No. 5 regular "Peep 'O Day" 

 brooder, for inside use only, and 3'our outfit is com- 

 plete. 



Now handle these chicks just the same as I have 

 outlined for the others, except you use these houses 

 in February and March, when you cannot plough the 

 ground, so you will start these chicks same as I have 

 told you, except on the third day you begin feeding 

 processed oats to your chicks, and give them all they 

 will eat of them from then on, and see that they are 

 never out of chick feed. It will be a pleasure to see 

 them grow, and sick chickens will be rare under this 

 system of feeding — and your cost in raising them will 

 be very light, as you will find their main feed is pro- 

 cessed oats at 8 to 10 cents a bushel. 



When your chicks are large enough to think of 

 roosting, and need heat no more, ^ou should market 

 the cockerels for squab broilers, if possible, at eight 

 to ten weeks old, and remove your pullets to your lay- 

 ing houses. Your brooders are then ready for another 

 batch of later chicks which can be allowed to grow 

 up in these houses. 



You will find these houses \'ery handy for winter- 

 ing surplus cockerels and pullets, and it is always 

 nice to ha^-e some surplus birds on hand. 



I think I have made things ^-ery plain and if 

 you will follow my instructions you will have no 

 trouble in raising your chicks, providing your eggs 

 are produced under my method of feeding, from 

 healthy stock. 



