SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



C. H. WELLES, Stratford, Conn. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 29. I use incubators for all my early chicks and some 

 of the later ones. The incubator is. indispensible to the fancier, 

 market poultrymaii, or the small breeder. 



A. 30. About 50. Don't crowd the chicks. 



A. 31. A commercial chick food the first three or four 

 weeks. After that, foods that make bone and muscle; whole 

 wheat, hulled oats and meat scraps principally. 



A. 32. I keep it by them all the time in dry food hoppers. 



FRANK McGRANN, Lancaster, Pa. 



BREEDER OF SINGLE COMB BLACK MINORCAS.BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, 



WHITE WYANDOTTES, AND SINGLE-COMB 



WHITE LEGHORNS 



A. 29. About 75 per cent artificially. 



A. 30. Not more than 50 chicks. 



A. 31. For the first two days I feed a mixture of toasted 

 bread and cooked infertile eggs, then I add' chick food until thejr 

 are ten days old, when I cut out the bread and eggs entirely. 

 Then I begin feeding meat scrap in small quantities and also 

 greens of some kind, charcoal and grit before them all the time. 

 When the chicks are about six weeks old, I commence feeding 

 cracked com, and Continue this until they have matured. 



A. 32. Scatter the feed in cut clover and feed four times 

 a day until the chicks are six weeks old, and then only three 

 times a day. 



A. 30. About 40 and not more than 60. 



A. 31. Feed some good chick food in hoppers. 



A. 32. Cracked grains such as com, wheat, millet, kaffir 

 com, beef scraps, hopper fed, with plenty of water, and milk 

 when it can be had. Feed all sweet or all sour milk; do not 

 mix the two, thus avoiding sickness. 



EDW. KNAPP, OF KNAPP BROS., Fabius, N. Y. 



S. C. WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 29. We use incubators for hatching all our stock. 



A. 30. We place about 75 chicks in each brooder. 



A. 31. Dry bread crumbs for first two days, then we 

 believe in johnny cakes properly made to crumble nicely with 

 meat scraps added interspersed with chick food best quality 

 fine granulated grains. 



A. 32. We feed in long shallow troughs what- they will 

 pick up quickly every two hours at first, gradually coming to 

 three feeds a day. 



H. J. BLANCHARD, Groton, N. Y. 



S. C. WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 29. 



brooders. 



A. 30. 



A. 31. 

 chick food. 



All chicks hatched by incubators and raised in 



Forty to 60, according to. the season and weather. 



First feed grit and bread crumbs or commercial 



Water, not very cold. Chick food is continued for 



W. D. HOLTERMAN, Ft. Wayne, Ind. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 31. I feed little chicks a dry grain mixture 

 such as is put on the market by different manufacturers. 

 I start them on this and feed them nothing else for the 

 first three weeks. Then I begin with a httle hulled oats 

 and wheat. 



A. 32. I feed them absolutely dry foods, nothing 

 wet or even moist. Every two hours they are looked 

 after and fed a Httle. They do not receive any water the 

 first two days. In this way I succeed iu getting them 

 started with very little trouble or loss. 



H. E. BENEDICT, Horseheads, N. Y. 



BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 29. Seventy-five to 90 per cent by incubator, 

 and from 10 to 25 per cent by hens. 



A. 30. From 25 to 50, according to the size of the 

 brooder. 



A. 31. Dry chick food imtil large enough to take whole 

 wheat, cracked com and such grains. Give them chick grit the 

 first thing. They should have sunshine, fresh air and exercise. 



A. 32. Feed them little at a time and often, every two 

 hours at first and every three hours until well started. 



A. B. TODD, Vermillion, Ohio 



S. C. WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 29. All of my hatching is artificially done and hatch 

 about 80 per cent of all fertile eggs. 



HEALTHY, VIGOROUS, YOUNG STOCK ON FREE RANGE 



about five or six weeks alternated with johnny cake, after which 

 this feed is gradually discontinued and a dry mixture of com 

 meal, wheat bran and alfalfa meal takes its place. Whole wheat 

 and cracked com gradually take the place of the chick food and 

 the dry mash is continued right along with the addition of some 

 high grade beef scraps. When the chicks are quite small and 

 not able to run out and pick grass we feed them short cut clover 

 or lawn clippings which they enjoy. Also keep grit and charcoal 

 before them. 



A. 32. First few feeds given on clean sand in brooder, 

 then scattered in cut straw, cut clover or bran chaff until chicks 

 get outdoors when the chick food is scattered in short grass 

 when dry. The dry mash is first fed on small boards with a lath 



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