SUCCESSFUL CHICK GROWING 



A. 38. After birds are ten weeks old and colonized on 

 free range with abundance of shade, sunlight, grit, shell and 

 water, their three meals are mixed grains well sown broadcast 

 in litter and grass, morning, noon and a full feed at night, the 

 latter being given them about four o'clock. They will put in a 

 good time before roost time and their morning feed meets them 

 when coming from night quarters. 



J. H. DOANE, Gouverneur, N. Y. 



PRFEDER OF S. C. BLACK MINORCAS AND WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 33. For me, as a fancier, 50 is enough. A market 

 poultryman could put 100 together with good results, if well 

 removed from neighboring colonies. 



A. 34. Just as soon as the cockerels become troublesome. 



A. 35. Yes, separate all that do not come up to a high 

 standard as soon as possible and give the better ones a chance 

 to develop finer. 



A. 36. At this time, I separate the culls for the ax and 

 retain only such as bid fair to develop good ones. Cull closely 

 should be the watchword of the fancier, and better quality is 

 attained in this way only. 



A. 37. Whole grain exclusively with plenty of cracked 

 or whole corn. 



A. 38. Scattered in the grass three times daily. 



J. W. PARKS, Altoona, Pa. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 34. When the cockerels get to nagging the pullets. 

 A. 35. We very seldom have much trouble with cock- 

 erels until winter comes when they must be kept in the houses, 

 and even then they get along among themselves all right until a 

 nice day comes and we have to let them out, and then the ones 

 from different pens sometimes get to mixing things up a little. 

 A. 36. We generally take day about leaving them out, 

 and in some cases we just run a little temporary fence around 

 each coop, leaving the door on the outside. It isn't that they 

 find things to eat that we like to leave them out when it is a nice 

 day; it is because we like to see them outside where they can 

 stretch themselves, as we like to do ourselves after being shut 

 in a while. 



A. 37. We feed our young growing stock on range all 

 the oats they will eat for breakfast, a httle wheat or cracked 

 corn for dinner, and for supper all the corn they will eat up 

 clean. We keep a hopper of dry mash where they can help 

 themselves. We also allow them beef scraps at all times. 



A. 38. We feed our growing stock in front of their coops 

 in nice weather, and on bad days throw it in the coop in the 

 litter. As we move our coops at least every two weeks and 

 sometimes every week we have a clean place to feed them, and 

 they do not tramp out the grass in front of coops. We feed 

 our growing stock three times a day, and they always have 

 access to the dry mash in hoppers. While there are plenty of 

 insects in the summer for the growing chicks I very seldom feed 

 any beef scraps, and when I do feed them scraps I generally 

 make it about one-half wheat bran and place that in ioppers 

 before them. For my part I do not care for the young stock 

 to get aU the scraps that they would eat, as it brings them to 

 maturity too soon. We hear too much nowdays in favor of 

 early maturity. It can be done and in some cases is all right, 

 but it would not be the thing for a breeder like myself to follow, 

 as. I know a little about it from experience. I would much 

 sooner have the pullet for a breeder that did not commence to 

 lay until she was six and one-half or seven months old than the 

 one that commenced to lay at five months. I have had them 



lay at five months old, and that is something out of the ordi- 

 nary for the Barred Rooks, but it was at a sacrifice of size and 

 vitaUty. You take a pullet that is allowed to get her size, that 

 is, fill out arid get matured before she commences to lay, and 

 when she gets down to it she is going to make the eggs come, 

 as she has the constitution and strength back of it, and at the 

 end of two years she will be ahead of her sister that commenced 

 to lay six weeks eariier, and she will lay better sized eggs. There 

 may be exceptions in this case, and I do not want to be consid- 

 ered one that is trying to stop the wheels of progress, but am 

 opposed to anything that is detrimental to our favorite and 

 profitable breed, the Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



BRADLEY BROS., Lee, Mass. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALISTS 



A. 33. Fifty to 100 according to convenience and range, 

 etc. 



A. 34. At about five months old. 



A. 35. Too much trouble and don't do as well as a rule. 

 If particularly fine show birds, we separate them in pens for the 

 purpose and give a hen or two perhaps. 



A. 37. Same as I feed little chicks. They get all the beef 

 scraps and cracked corn they will eat, for they have farm range. 

 Mixed grains also; corn one part, cracked corn two parts, wheat 

 two parts, barley one part, buckwheat and shells. 



A. 38. Twice a day, or as for fowls. Mash usually at 

 noon what they will eat up clean. 



C. H. WELLES, Stratford, Conn. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 33. This depends upon size of house. I don't like to 

 have over 25, but most always do as I like about tMs number. 

 When I put them in for the winter. 

 I do not as a rule, except on my best specimens. 

 What I cannot accommodate in small runs I coop. 

 Same as I feed little chicks. 

 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. 33. Not more than 50 in a flock. 



A. 34. Just as soon as I am able to distinguish the cock- 

 erels from the pullets. 



A. 35. Not unless I take out the best of them and fit 

 them for exhibition piu^poses. 



A. 36. Give the cockerels which I have selected for 

 exhibition purposes plenty of house room and free range if 

 possible, also feed them specially. 



A. 37. Just the same as breeding stock, only I feed them 

 a mash food three times a week. 



A. 38. Scatter the grain food on the grass in the yards, 

 and feed the mash in a low trough. I feed three times a day. 



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



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 37. Growing stock get much oats and meat scraps in 

 addition to the other grain foods. I prefer hulled or clipped 

 oats. The young cockerels are watched carefully with regard 



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