SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



hunt for bugs and insects among the berry bushes, orchards, 

 etc., to return and take some food from the hopper and quietly 

 go to their roost as nature intends they should. 



MRS. H. W. HAND, White Hall, 111. 



WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 33. From 25 to 35. 



A. 34. At about twelve or fifteen weeks of age. 



A. 35. When they are about five months old I separate 

 them into colonies, each colony as near the same age as possible. 



A. 37. I feed my growing stock plenty of wheat, corn 

 and oats, morning and night, and at noon steamed oats or a 

 properly balanced mash, with range on a blue-grass field. 



A. 38. The grain is scattered so that they will have to 

 hunt for it, and the mash fed in troughs. Do not like to feed 

 meat scraps in hoppers to growing stock., they get plethoric and 

 have liver trouble. 



MRS. CHARLES JONES, Paw Paw, III. 



BREEDER OF BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. BUFF COCHINS, 

 GOLDEN BRONZE TURKEYS 



A. 33. About 500. 



A. 34. They all have the run of the farm. 

 A. 35. I separate cockerels when put into winter quarters 

 A. 37. Oats and com, and they have the run of an 

 orchard with all the apples they can eat. 

 A. 38. Twice a day. 



HARMON BRADSHAW, Lebanon, Ind. 



S,. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 



A. 33. Let thetn run at large after they come from 

 the brooder. 



A. 34. At six to eight months. 



A. 35. Yes. 



A. 36. Have small pens 3 by 3 feet, 5 feet high, one cock- 

 erel to a pen. 



A. 37. Same as for breeding stock. 



A. 38. Same. 



C. L. PENCYL, Bloomsburg, Pa. 



BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 34. As soon as the young cockerels begin to crow 

 and bother the puUets. 



A. 35. Yes, I do. I think it better for buff pullets and 

 cockerels to be separated until breeding season. 



A. 36. Keep them in runs by themselves until I find sale 

 for them. Think they both do better than penning them up 

 in exhibition coops separate, and the cockerels won't fight if 

 raised up together. 



A. 37. After they are large enough to eat wheat and 

 cracked com, etc., I feed them all they will clean up every time, 

 and usually throw it amongst clean litter to keep them on the 

 move all the time, and then let them out for green stuff, bugs, 

 etc. 



A. 38. I feed mostly all hard food or dry food, and feed 

 three times per day. 



MRS. TILLA LEACH, Cheneyville, 111. 



BREEDER OF BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 34. When the cockerels become so troublesome that 

 I am obliged to. 



A. 35. Yes, advisable but not possible; am limited as 

 to room. 



A. 37. Wheat, cracked corn, etc., scattered and also in 

 boxes. At night mash like the older fowls. As soon as new 

 corn is ready they have it on the cob. 



A. 38. A light feed of cooked mash at night; aim to keep 

 plenty of grain by them during the day, also some beef scraps. 



GEO. H. HIE, Racine, Wis. 



BREEDER OF BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 33. About 30. 



A. 34. At about three months old. 



A. 35. Yes, for all cockerels that I want for exhibition 

 purposes or for fine breeders. 



A. 36. I have a number of smaJl pens, very often I place 

 two cockerels in the same pen, that is, if I find out that they 

 agree together. 



ROSEDALE POULTRY FARM CO., 

 Greenwood, Mass. 



WHITE WYANDOTTES EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 33. Forty or 50, or less, determined by size and 

 temperament. Free range during fine weather. 



A. 34. At sixteen weeks. 



A. 35. Always. Weed out the fighters and place them 

 with birds with whom they agree. 



A. 36. Mate or match up according to their likes and 

 dislikes. 



A. 37. Same as for breeding stock. 



A. 38. Same as other stock. Four times a day, meals 

 about equally divided. 



BENJ. H. BAKER, Owensboro, Ky. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 34. I do not separate them untU well near to maturity 

 A. 35. I find it quite advisable later on to separate the 

 males. It often saves a good male from being ruined for show- 

 ing and as a breeder, as they often would lose a great deal of 

 energy from the loss of blood in fighting. 



A. 36. I coop them in coops about 2 J feet by 2 J feet, 

 sometimes putting two together if they get along well. I find 

 that they develop better and quicker and less subject to accident 

 than any other method I know of. 



FRANK D. HAM, Livingstone, N. Y. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 33. Twelve females with one male. 



A. 34. At five months old. 



A. 35. Yes. 



A. 36. Large yards for the cockerels; free range for the 

 pullets. 



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