SUCCESSFUL CHICK GROWING 



A. 35. March hatched cockerels should be separated 

 about the first of November and the best placed each alone, 

 that is, if you want to use them for showing, otherwise it would 

 make no difference. ^ 



A. 36. Coop each of the best alone after they are taken 

 in for the winter, or else coop say about three together in a pen, 

 if they seem to agree well. Sometimes they do the best when 

 crowded thick in a pen so they have no chance to fight, and this 

 is the best way to handle late-hatched cockerels. 



A. 37 and 38. Same as I feed little chicks. 



A. 34. When about three months old. 



A. 35. We do. 



A. 36. We separate them in the winter when they get 

 uneasy by^ distributing among our hens. 



A. 37. Wheat and cracked corn and oats, and be very 

 sure not to feed any damaged grain. 



A. 38. Three times per day 



D. F. PALMER & SON, Yorkville, III. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALISTS 



We give the growing stock free range. 



We don't separate until we house them for the 



Yes, if you have plenty of room. 



CHARLES G. PAPE. Fort Wayne, Indiana, 



S. C. BLACK MINORCA SPECIALIST 



Twenty-five. 

 At five or six months. 



It seems that they spread out in better shape 

 (more plump). It certainly saves their plumage. 



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FORAGING-CLOSE TO NATURE 



A. 37. Keep cracked corn and wheat in feeders where 

 they can help themselves all the time, so arranged that the old 

 ones can't get to it. 



GUS. L. HAINLINE, Lamar, Missouri 



WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 33. Not over 50, prefer 30. 



A . 34. Five months. 



A. 35. Have not done so. 



A. 37. Ground bone or meat scraps occasionally; oats 

 and kaflBr corn; young stock scattered out over the farm; to 

 illustrate, I counted seventeen head following my corn binder 

 cutting kaffir corn, a quarter mile from their colony house. 



G. MONROE WOOD, Woodville, N. Y. 



WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 33. About 100 until nearly six weeks old and then 

 we give them free range. 



WM. H. ROBINSON, La Fayette, Ind. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS AND WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 33. In colony coops from 25 to 100 according to size 

 of coop. Never crowd; a vital point and loss 



A. 34. At whatever age they bother the other sex; if 

 on large free range can be done quite late. 



A. 35. Yes, in large grassy yards well cared for. 



A. 36. Simply in large grass runs, plenty of the best of 

 food and pure water. Good management and good judgment 

 in housing and roosting. 



A. 37. When reaching more mature age we gradually 

 wean them from the small grain, place them in colony coops, 

 not crowded, and feed cracked corn and wheat from the hopper, 

 with beef' scraps also before them. With this and large free 

 farm or orchard range, young stock is bound to grow and mature 

 early and strong, hardy and vigorous in every respect. 



A. 38. Fed as above with hoppers constantly before them, 

 they go and come as they choose. There is no crowding and 

 jamming over one another at feeding time. The birds have 

 been allowed to balance their own ration, and go and come from 

 the fields at their own free will, where they may scratch and 



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