52 BRIGGS' SYSTEM OF 



mash, if you wish to get good hatches of chicks that 

 will live if given half a chance, for when an entirely 

 inexperienced man tries to raise them they must be 

 from hardy stock. 



You do not have to wait many months for profit 

 to come in when you buy your eggs to start with, as 

 you can market your cockerels for broilers. In three 

 months from the time you set your machines, you can 

 count on quite an income, so all things considered, ex- 

 perience you get with the rest. 



I advise starting in the Spring, by buying your 

 eggs and raising your own chicks. These chicks can 

 be raised very cheaply under my new system of giving 

 them all the processed oats they will take four or 

 five times a day, in connection with a good chick food 

 before them all the time, as well as grit, charcoal and 

 beef scrap. 



You should clean your brooder out at least once 

 a week, which I find answers every purpose. Also 

 keep your brooder part, where chicks are fed, covered 

 with cut clover, as they eat much of this, and it is 

 very beneficial to them. 



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