SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



to meat scraps, as these are liable to make their combs large and 

 beefy. The best thing these birds get is the range of the faim. 

 Charcoal is left before them all the time. 



A. 38. Growing stock also receive only dry food. I find 

 a feed of three times a day is sufficient. Will try hopper feed- 

 ing for these. They have fresh pure water always. 



H. E. BENEDICT, Horseheads, N. Y. 



BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 33. If yarded, 25 to 50 according to size of yard. If 

 free range, let them run in larger flocks, the pullets and cock- 

 erels separate. 



A. 34. As soon as they begin to worry the pullets. 



A. 35. Not as a general thing until I put them in winter 

 quarters. If they get to fighting put an old cock with them. 



A. 36. According to my circumstances and the condi- 

 tion of things I may have to take out some of the smaller ones 

 and give them a better chance. If any of them get too lordly, 

 take them out. Kill off the culls as soon as you can. 



A. 37. All kinds of dry grain. 



A. 38. Scatter it on the ground (except cracked corn, 

 feed that in a trough), if weather is dry; if wet, feed inside in 

 litter. After two months three times a day will do. 



A. B. TODD, Vermillion, Ohio 



S. C. WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 33. From 40 to 60, 



A. 34. About six to eight weeks, or as soon as they can 

 be distinguished. 



A. 35. Yes. 



A. 36. Pick out those having perfect combs, good shape, 

 style, etc., and have the others fattened for market. 



A TYPE OF OUTDOOR BROODER WITHOUT RUNWAY 

 OR CONFINING PEN 



A. 37. Cracked grains same as fed growing chicks, also 

 a dry mash, hopper fed, with beef scraps and plenty of fresh 

 water and grit before them at all times. 



A. 38. I hopper feed all of my growing stock, being care- 

 ful to see that hoppers are kept filled at all times 



EDW. KNAPP, OF KNAPP BROS., Fabius, N. Y. 



S. C. WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



a: 33. One hundred to 150. 



A. 34. We do not think it necessary to separate the 

 sexes until the cockerels show their masculinity. 



A. 35. We do; as they develop, we place the best ones 

 by themselves. 



A. 36. We watch best birds and if necessary take out the 

 unruly ones. 



A. 37. Our growing stock thrive well on same ration 

 fed three times a day as we feed adult stock, just what they 

 will pick up clean in a short time. 



H. J. BLANCHARD, Groton, N. Y. 



S. C. WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 33. One hundred to 150, according to location, size 

 of house, age of chicks and amount and character of range. I 

 do not approve of yarding young stock when of suitable age to 

 run at Uberty. 



A. 34. At about four months old. 



A. 35. I do not. 



A. 37. Wheat and cracked corn, two parts wheat and 

 one part corn for whole grain, and a dry mash once a day com- 

 posed of corn meal, wheat bran and alfalfa meal with about ten 

 per cent high grade beef scrap, thoroughly mixed. 



A. 38. Whole grains are fed scattered widely on the 

 ground twice a day and the dry mash fed in shallow troughs 

 once a day, usually in the morning. 



A. & E. TARBOX, Yorkville, 111. 



SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE SPECIALISTS 



A. 33. We house about 50 as a general rule and give 

 free range. 



A. 34. At five or six months, bjit think it would be 

 better at three or four months. 



A. 35. Yes. 



A. 37. Coarse grains (balanced ration). Beef scraps. 



A. 38. We feed the grain foods in litter; feed three times 

 a day. 



F. W. RICHARDSON, HicksviUe, Ohio 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 33. Fifty head is the limit. 



A. 34, Four months old. 



A. 35. I separate a few show specimens later. Never 

 found it necessary to separate breeding cockerels. 



A. 37. Feed soft food once a day mostly for morning 

 feed, composed of corn, oats, barley, equal parts, and soaked 

 oats at noon; whole corn at night. 



A. 38. Wheat in morning, oats at noon, corn at night, 



CHAS. E VASS, Washington, N. J. 



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

 COMB WHITE AND BLACK ORPINGTONS 



A. 33. It's not profitable to allow over 50 or 60 head tc 

 roam together. 



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