66 BRIGGS' SYSTEM OF 



A FEW THINGS TO 

 REMEMBER 



All oats will not grow satisfactory, and if you get 

 some that will not nearly all grow, try another lot of 

 another dealer, for when they grow satisfactory you 

 will have a complete mass of roots and sprouts which 

 should be an inch long for best results. 



Have several large lots of oats going for a large 

 plant, and do not get out of them, for this is your 

 main feed for producing eggs and for growing chicks. 

 There is nothing like it. Give them all they will take 

 four times a day, sure. Keep it right by them, as they 

 live and grow on this as they will on nothing else, and 

 it forms fully 80 per cent of their rations after they 

 are a week old. 



If you fail to make the success you expect under 

 this system, write me, enclosing stamp, and I will 

 straighten you out. For you cannot go wrong if you 

 follow my instructions to the letter. 



If your little chicks have board floors, you should 

 clean their pens out every four days, sure, and put the 

 leavings in runs of your old hens, they will clean up 

 all seeds and oats not eaten by chicks. Cover your 

 floor lightly with clover, there is nothing as good. 



Your Leghorn pullets should lay at five months 

 of age, sure, if you have fed and cared for them as 

 laid down in this book. If they do not, you have 

 failed to carry out some important part, or your stock 

 is not the laying kind. 



