INCUBATION AND BROODING 



A. 31. Cracked grains of various kinds, wheat princi- 

 pally, later a cooked mash once a day. 



A. 32. Throw cracked grains in litter, mash in trough; 

 about every two or three hours. 



C. BRICAULT, M. D. V., Andover, Mass. 



BREEDER OF WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 29. All my hatching is done in the standard made 

 incubators. 



A. 31. A prepared chick food, beef scraps, grit, and a 

 run on grass. 



YOUNG LEGHORNS FEEDING 



A. 32. Chick food in hoppers from the day they are put 

 in brooders, beef scraps also. After they are six weeks old, 

 cracked wheat and corn is added, then whole wheat and cracked 



ARTHUR G. DUSTON, So. Framingham, Mass. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 29. Fifty per cent artificially. I have not yet gotten 

 accommodations for running all the incubators I want to niii. 



A. 30. Not over 50. 



A. 31. I start them on rolled oats and prepared chick 

 food at three weeks. Dry mash is added and next year I want 

 to feed skim milk. I believe there is nothing to equal it. I 

 feed every two hours. 



ARTHUR G. BOUCK, Frankfort, N. Y. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 29. I hatch about 75 per cent of my chicks with 

 incubators and about 25 per cent by the natural method. 



A. 30. I place about 50 chicks in each brooder. 



A. 31. When from thirty-six to forty-eight hours old I 

 feed a small amount of chick grit. I then feed a good chick 

 food with about 10 per cent chick grit mixed with it. I also 

 give them an occasional feeding of hard boiled eggs, using the 

 infertile eggs that are tested out of my incubators. 



A. 32. I scatter the chick food in the litter of the brood- 

 ers, making the chicks scratch for it. I believe one of the 

 secrets of success is in keeping the chicks hustling for their 

 living. I feed from three to five times daily when small. 



C. H. WYCKOFF, Aurora, N. Y. 



S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 



A. 29. Hatch all by incubators. 



A. 30. Fifty to 100 chicks. 



A. 31. About the same as adult fowls except that the 

 grains are cracked or broken somewhat finer while they are 

 small. 



A. 32. Give all feed to chicks dry, scattered on wide 

 boards. Feed four times a day and no iriore than they will 

 clean up each time. 



IRVING F. RICE, Courtland, N. Y. 



S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 



A. 29. I use incubators to hatch every chick I raise. 



A. 30. Not to exceed 60. 



A. 31. Johnnycake and prepared chick food until old 

 enough to eat cracked com and wheat. One meal a day of pot 

 cheese. 



A. 32. The food is placed on clean boards until they are 

 large enough to eat from a trough. We commence feeding five 

 times a day. When they are larger and older, only three times. 

 "Little and often" is our motto. Never overfeed them; this is 

 the greatest cause of little chick mortality. 



J. T. THOMPSON, Hope, Ind. 



BREEDER OF WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS AND MAMMOTH 

 BRONZE TURKEYS 



A. 31. For the first two days I feed them nothing but 

 hard boiled eggs. Aiter that time, and until they get old enough 

 to eat cracked com and wheat, I feed them on a prepared chick 

 food, as I consider it about the best food that was ever com- 

 pounded for little chicks. I always keep them well supplied 

 with charcoal, grit, green foods, etc. I never feed any wet foods. 



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A. 32. I always feed the grains in the straw so as to make 

 them exercise as much as possible. When they are small I feed 

 them three or four times per day. After they get to be a month 

 or so old I feed them only twice per day, morning and evening. 



