SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



A. 35. I separate sexes when placing the young stock in 

 winter quarters. 



A. 36. I grade each sex as to size, etc., and place those 

 of about the same size in each pen. 



A. 37. I feed growing stock three times daily. Mash in 

 the morning and cracked corn, oats and barley at noon and 

 night, giving them all they will eat. Beef scraps, grit and 

 charcoal are hopper fed. 



S. J. McQUILLIANDE, Metuchen, N. L 



WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 37. Mostly corn, wheat and oats. 

 A. 38. I feed all growing stock with hoppers and use the 

 best grain that money will buy. 



A. 35. The most promising exhibition cockerels are sep- 

 arated from large flock and are kept in small flocks. 



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



S. C. WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



Seventy-five to 100. 



At about 12 weeks of age. 



No, if kept away from the females they are fairly 



A. 33. 



A. 34. 



A. 35. 

 peaceable. 



A. 37 and 38, After chicks are removed to colony houses 

 their feed contains less fine cracked and more whole grain; and 

 those that have a wide range have the feed where they can go 

 to it at any time. 



IRVING F. RICE, Courtland, N. Y. 



S. C. WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 33. One hundred in each colony house. 

 A. 34. About three months old, or when the cockerels 

 begin to annoy the pullets. 



A PRIZE WINNING BUCKEYE HEN AND CHICKS 



A. 37. Wheat, corn and oats, and a dry mash where 

 they can help themselves at all times; in this dry mash meat is 

 mixed. • , 



4.,^ 38. Only three times a day, scattered in the litter 

 excepfthe dry mash which is placed in troughs. 



J. T. THOMPSON, Hope, Ind. 



WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS AND MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS 



A. 33. I never house over 50 birds in one building. 



A. 34. I separate the sexes when they are about three 

 months old. 



A. 37. I feed my growing stock, that is, after they get 

 to be a couple of months old, the same that I feed my breeding 

 stock, with the exception that I feed them more corn than my 

 breeders, as I consider corn about the best food for growing stock. 



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