SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



F. C. SHEPARD, Toledo, Ohio 



WM. BYWATERS, Camden Point, Mo. 



SPECIALTY BREEDER OF BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 29. About 50 per cent. 



A. 30. Thirty to 40 chicks. 



A. 31. Bread crumbs first two days, after which mostly 

 prepared chick food until they are large enough to eat wheat an 

 cracked com, with a feeder of wheat bran where they can get 

 all they want at any time. 



A. 32. Same as 31. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 29. I put a large per cent of eggs in incubators and 

 keep them there from ten days to two weeks, and then put them 

 under hens owing to the close pedigree I keep of all chicks 

 hatched. 



A. 32. I start little chicks on a commercial chick food 

 but do not feed as much for ten days as many do. I raise them 

 with hens and feed a small amount four times a day from the 

 time they are two days until two weeks, and then twice a day. 



AUG. D. ARNOLD, Dillsburg, Pa. 



COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 29. I hatch about 50 per cent with hens, the balance 

 with incubators. Real early in the season when eggs are scarce 

 I use hens. When eggs are plentiful then I use incubators. 



A. 30. About 50. 



A. 31. Prepared foods such as are on the market (with- 

 out grit). Now prefer to feed grit by itself and not mixed with 

 the feed. 



A. 32. Feed four times a day until a month or six weeks 

 old, then three times a day. Use scraps, charcoal and-grit. Do 

 not feed until two days old, then very little at a time until a 

 week old. 



GARDNER & DUNNING, Auburn, N. Y. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALISTS 



A. 29. Twenty-five per cent by incubator, 75 per cent 

 by hens. 



A. 30. Never more than 50. 



A. 31. Dry chick food and johimycake made of com 

 meal and wheat middlings. They have free range with plenty 

 of grass and bugs. 



A. 32. Five times per day first week, then three times. 



J. C. MACOMBER, Reading, Mass. 



BREEDER OF PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES AND BARRED 

 PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 29. I should say I hatch about 90 per cent with in- 

 cubators and about 10 per cent with hens. 



A. 30. I have used brooders, but in future shall use a 

 brooder ho«se. In using brooders, I put about 75 chicks in a 

 100-size brooder. 



A. 31. With little chicks I believe that attention and 

 care is more essential than kinds of food. The trouble is that 

 the majority of them will not eat at all unless they are taught 

 to. I have used various kinds of feed, but I have the best re- 

 sults as foUows: One part com meal, one part sifted ground 

 oats and two parts bran, mixed together, perfectly dry, then put 

 into an oven and baked. Understand that there is no water or 

 nothing moist whatever put with it, simply baked dry. At feed- 

 ing time, we take a little warm water and just moisten it, making 

 it as dry^as possible while having it moist. This we feed for at 

 least three weeks. Of course, we mix in a Uttle beef scraps, 

 say aibout 5 per cent and a little charcoal. 



A. 32. As soon as they are large enough we commence 

 giving them a dry feed together with the mash, as explained in 

 31 as follows: One part wheat, one part hulled oats and one part 

 cracked corn. Gradually we leave off the mash. At first every 

 two hours, later three times a day. 



A. OBERNDORF, Centralia, Kansas 



BREEDER OF SINC3LE-C0MB WHITE LEGHORNS AND BARRED 

 PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 29. Two-thirds by incubators, one-third by natural 

 method. 



A. 30. Not over 50. 



A. 31. First week hard boiled eggs, curd, grit and char- 

 coal, then gradually com bread mixed' with ground wheat, some 

 beef scaps and vegetables, and if in brooder house some cut clover. 



A. 32. Scattering the feed in the htter and also in troughs 

 five times a day the first three weeks, and then twice a day. 



E. B. THOMPSON, Amenia, N. Y. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



F. J. WEHRMEYER, Benton Harbor, Mich. 



WHITE VnrANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 29. Ninety per cent with incubators, 10 per cent with 

 natural method. 



A. 30. We sometimes crowd them the first few days 

 only. After this we aim to never keep more than 25 in, a bunch. 



A. 31. Dry feed exclusively, preferably chick foods as 

 bought, always feeding liberally in fine cut litter. Also supply 

 green food and beef scraps, etc., same as for adults, using chick 

 grit. We start them by dipping their bills in water or milk 

 (usually milk) and then literally cover the floor of brooder with 

 chick food, good and plenty, so that every pick means a kernel. 

 In a day or so this is cleaned up and then feeding begins liber- 

 ally in the fine litter, cleaning often. This waste goes to the older , 

 birds and none lost. We like to feed finely cut cabbage upon 

 clean boards, removing same when done. 



A. 31. Bread crumbs or crackers first few days, then fine 

 cracked corn and cracked wheat. After a week old give a mash 

 once a day made of corn meal or hominy, wheat bran and white 

 wheat middlings. 



A. 32. Cracked corn and wheat, with a mash made as 

 above. 



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DR. O. P. BENNETT, Mazon, 111. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



29. About 50 per cent either way. 



30. Not over 50 to 75 in the largest brooders made. 



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