INCUBATION AND BROODING 



A. 30. Fifty chicks. 



A. 31. Prepared chick food. 



O. E. SKINNER, Columbus, Kansas 



BREEDER OF BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, BUFF AND 

 PARTRIDGE COCHINS 



A. 29. Ninety-eight per cent with incubators; 2 per cent 

 with natural. 



A. 30. Not to exceed 75 chicks. 



A. 31. A commercial chick food the first three days. 

 I then use some hard boiled eggs tested from incubator. In a 

 week or ten days I commence feeding a mash from fine ground 

 wheat and corn mixed with about one-third bran; this to be fed 

 in clean troughs or dishes. 



A'. 32. The mash in dishes or troughs. The chick food, 

 cracked wheat and cracked corn (fine) in litter. 



A. 30. Can manage 75 chicks in a 100-chiok size brooder 

 in cold weather; later on 50 chicks seem too many. 



A. 31. Commercial chick food of cracked grains. Beef 

 scrap and greens. 



A. 32. In litter the first few days; five times per day 

 when strong enough to let down into exercising compartment 

 in hoppers. 



R. H. CRANDALL, Worth, Mich. 



S. C. AND R. C. WHITE AND BROWN LEGHORNS, WHITE WYANDOTTES, 

 PEKIN DUCKS, TOULOUSE GEESE AND BRONZE TURKEYS 



A. 29. Hatch all chicks, ducks and "turkeys artificially. 

 Toulouse geese under our White Wyandottes, which make fine 

 mothers for goslings. 



A. 30. About 60 chicks in a brooder. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE YOUNG STOCK, ON FREE RANGE 



A. 29. 

 farm out. 



A. 30. 

 that better. 



A. 31. 



J. M. WILLIAMS, No. Adams, Mich. 



S. C. AND R. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS 



We use incubators altogether, except what we 

 In the 100-ohick size not over 50 chicks, less than 

 Any standard make chick food. 



OTTO O. WILD, Benton Harbor, Mich. 



WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 29. 



by hens. 



Seventy-five per cent by incubators, 25 per cent 



W. W. KULP, Pottstown, Pa. 



BREEDER OF SINGLE AND ROSE-COMB WHITE AND BROWN LEG- 

 HORNS, WHITE WYANDOTTES. BUFF AND BARRED 

 ROCi:S, AND PLKIN DUCKj 



A. 29. I hatch about two-thirds with the machines. 



A. 30. I place 45 in each brooder. 



A. 31. Feed them on commercial chick food to start them, 

 adding cracked corn and meat after a few weeks. Feed plenty. 

 Give them bits of meat the fifth day. 



A. 32. I feed the chicks four times a day; part of the 

 feeds are mixed. Mash, about the same as for the old birds, 

 not so much bran. 



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