45 BRIGGS' SYSTEM OF 



they will bunch up, and this is the last of them, for 

 they can die about as fast as you can hatch them. 



You will find most of the big breeders, who are in 

 the fancy stock raising, all use hens for hatching and 

 raising them, and get all their neighbors to hatch and 

 raise for them, for they cannot hatch them and raise 

 them with incubators and brooders, just because their 

 breeders are fed on mashes, so as to get a big egg yield 

 to supply their large trade in eggs for hatching. 

 Nearly all the eggs sent out for hatching by the single 

 sittings, at a big price, always are hatched by the old 

 hen and raised, by them on free range, which will 

 pull them through if anything will. 



Under my system of feeding, eggs laid here in 

 January are running co per cent fertile, and ha\'e 

 hatched as high as 93-)4 per cent of fertile eggs. Thes^ 

 chicks in the same brooder house as where they all 

 died last year, are nearly all living this year, and these 

 chicks are hatched from the same breeding stock as 

 last year. So, you see, it all lays in the feed. 



A party was here to sec me, one day, who pur- 

 chased 60 eggs from this plant last year. Chicks hatch- 

 ed 10 very weakly. This year, in January, I sold 

 them 75 eggs, first test 08 eggs, hatched 61 chicks, all 

 living and growing like wcerls, one week old. 



Last year chicks weak and sickly, almost impossi- 

 ble to raise, which shows }(iu without a question that 

 it all lies in the feed. 



You can see at a glance Avhy every one who has 

 tried the broiler business as a business, has failed at 

 it. I defy anyone to find a profitable broiler plant, 

 but I am satisfied it can be made to pay under my 

 system of feeding, and in no other way yet known at 

 the present time. 



I want to say to you broiler men, with your long 

 piped houses, give them one more trial with eggs pro- 

 duced under my system of feeding and your troubles 

 are over. 



From January until June you can hatch broilers 

 at a splendid profit under this system, for you can 

 grow your later hatches up and make roasters of them 



