46 POULTRY SECRETS REVEALED. 



Don't be in too big a burry to bave tbem roost. Better wait until 

 they are three-quarters grown. Then there will be no danger of 

 crooked breast bones. 



The chicks need lots of fresh air. Therefore hook up both win- 

 dows and keep them open day and night. The stout wire screens 

 will bar out vermin. Be sure, however, that the door is closed every 

 night. One single lapse may cost you twenty-five valuable birds. 



Don't neglect the birds because they are "on range." See that 

 their fountains are full of fresh water daily. Remember that. Too 

 often chicks that run free are left to find water as best they can. 



On stormy days provide a liberal amount of scratch grain — I find 

 that the Intermediate Chick Feed is of especial value — so that the 

 youngsters may keep busy. 



The secret of getting quick money on young stock is to bring 

 the chicks to broiler size in the shortest time possible. If you can 

 get your broods out early enough you can sell your January hatched 

 broilers in March as the trade does not demand birds weighing more 

 than a pound each. As the season advances the weight increases, 

 and the price decreases. In May the demand is for birds weighing 

 from two to three pounds each. 



And right here let me sound a note of warning. 



Don't take stock in any miserable "system" faker who advertises 

 that he can teach you how to raise two pound broilers in eight weeks. 

 Like those fabulous pullets that lay 26 eggs per month when six 

 months old; like "feed" at 15 cents per bushel; like making $7,500 a 

 year on a plot 40 feet square — as the same knave claimed he could do 

 — all these are palpable falsehoods. 



You cannot get commercial broilers weighing two pounds at 



