18 Hubbard's poultry secrets. 



Put a handful of grit and oyster shells in the comer of each 

 pen. Old whole corn is the best feed for a sitting hen, as it 

 keeps up the heat of the body and the hens will not get diar- 

 rhea from it. The drinking water should be changed once 

 each day. Sitting hens handled in this way will make very 

 little trouble. The method excels any incubator that I have 

 ever yet tried. A chicken well hatched from healthy stock is 

 half grown. 



BROOD COOPS FOR HEN AND CHICKS. 



There are a great many kinds of brood coops on the market 

 for the hen and her brood, but I have never found any the 

 equal of the one I will now describe. 



A cut of this coop and yard will be found on another page. 

 This coop should be made of good matched lumber, well 

 painted. The roof should be covered with a good grade of 

 tar paper. This coop will last a life time if it is painted once 

 a year. I have been using twelve of these coops for seven 

 years and they are as good to-day as they were the day they 

 were built. 



The coop is four feet long, thirty inches wide, eighteen 

 inches high in back, thirty inches high in front, with a window 

 sash, 24 X 12 inches, for a door. There is a small slide door 

 for use wlien the large one is closed. This small door is 8x12 

 inches. There is a slat partition that goes inside the coop. 

 The slats are nailed four inches apart. This partition is fas- 

 tened to the roof with hinges and is hooked to the floor so the 

 hen cannot push it out of place when she is reaching for food. 

 The partition in the back of the coop is eighteen inches from 

 the back end. This leaves a space for the hen of 18x30 inches 

 and a floor space for the chickens of 30x30 inches. 



