INCUBATION AND BROODING 



around the margin and later in shallow troughs. First two or 

 three weeks we feed five times daily, then four and lastly three 

 times. 



A. & E. TARBOX, YorkviUe, 111. 



SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE SPECIALISTS 



A. 29. 



cent by hens. 



A. 30. 



A. 31. 



A. 32. 

 so as to keep them busy; the meal on boards or in troughs. 



Seventy-five per cent by the incubator, 25 per 



Forty to 50 chicks. 



A patent chick meal, mixed grain chick feed. 



Feed five times a day. Feed the grain in Utter 



F. W. RICHARDSON, Hicksville, Ohio 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 29. Hatch about 50 per cent artificially and about 

 75 per cent hatch; about 65 to 70 per cent natural method. 

 A. 30. Thirty-five to 40. 



A. 31. Chicks are fed on chick food for the first five or 

 six weeks; if this is not to be had, oatmeal is fed sparingly, to- 

 gether with cracked wheat, cracked com and millet seed, with 

 plenty of sharp grit always before them. 



A. C. HAWKINS, Lancaster, Mass. 



BREEDER OF WHITE, BUFF AND BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, 

 SILVER, BUFF AND WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 29. I hatch nearly all my chicks by the natural 

 method. 



A. 30. Fifty. 



A. 31. Chick food and a mash of three-fourths com meal, 

 one^eighth middlings and one-eighth ground oats cooked in milk. 



A. 32. I feed chicks at 5 a. m. and every three hours 

 until dark, a feed of chick food and a feed of mash alternately. 



J. C. FISHEL & SON, Hope, Ind. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALISTS 



A. 29. Nearly all by incubators, only a few late chicks 

 by hens in order to let our breeding hens have a rest. 



AN ARTISTIC GROUP OF WHITE LEGHORNS 



A. 31. Feed on pinhead oatmeal, toasted or oven dried 

 bread, and cracker crumbs. Fine grit and water to drink. 



A. 32. Like hopper feeding best with a good variety of 

 mixed grains, beef scraps, grit and shell, and give lots of range. 



CHAS. E. VASS, Washington, N. J. 



BREEDER OF SINGLE AND ROSE-COMB BUFF ORPINGTONS AND SINGLE- 

 COMB WHITE AND BLACK ORPINGTONS 



A. 30. Not over 75 chicks in 150 chick brooder, reducing 

 to half the number in three weeks. 



A. 30. About 50 chicks to a brooder. 



A. 31. Mostly prepared chick food of some reliable make. 



A. 32. As many as five and six times a day imtil feath- 

 ered, then we hopper feed them. That is the correct way after 

 a certain age. 



U. R. FISHEL, Hope, Ind. 



WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 29. We hatch everything by incubators. 



A. 30. We place 65 chicks in a 100-chick size brooder. 



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