28 Hubbard's poultry secrets. 



I found after making a thorough examination of the food 

 they ate, that it contained a great deal of moisture. The worms 

 and bugs they ate were very soft and juicy, and did not need 

 any water to swell them like hard, dry grain. I also found 

 that the seeds that they were eating contained moisture, as 

 they were not yet quite ripe. In fact, I found that everything 

 they ate contained a great deal of moisture. It was then very 

 plain to see why they did not go to the brook for water. They 

 did not need it, as they had been fed on the food which nature 

 intended them to have, and which contained water enough for 

 them up to that age. I also found that birds of different kinds 

 never gave their young ones water to drink, but furnished 

 them with food that was soft and easy to digest, and contained 

 all the moisture they needed up to the time they were able to 

 care for themselves. Then they drank water as often as na- 

 ture called for it. 



This test taught me that nature never intended a baby chick 

 to be fed on hard dried grains, but on food that contained 

 moisture and was easy to digest. So twelve years ago I gave 

 up feeding hard dried grains to baby chicks, until after the>' 

 were six weeks old. I then adopted a system of feeding moist 

 food, and since that time my system of feeding has never stood 

 defeat. I have bred and raised more winning Black Orping- 

 tons than any other poultryman in the United States, or any 

 other country where Orpingtons are raised. My winnings for 

 Foxhurst Farm at Madison Square Garden for the past three 

 years (see cuts showing the ribbons) prove that my system 

 stands alone, for my birds defeated all the best birds that Eng- 

 land, Canada, Australia, and the United States could produce. 



In competition at Madison Square Garden Show two years 

 ago, 1912-1913, there was a black hen, for which the owner 

 had paid $500, and pullets costing $200 each shipped from 

 Australia and guaranteed to win the blue, which my system de- 



