36 Hubbard's poultry secrets. 



us an even growth during these two months. By not eating 

 so much in these months the digestive organs seem rested 

 when the nights and days get cooler and for the next six weeks 

 they will eat twice as much as at any other time during the 

 growing period, and this is where we should force them in any 

 way we can. Be sure to have plenty of sprouted oats in the 

 trenches, for the more we make them exercise the more food 

 they will digest, and if their two mash feeds are quite moist 

 they will eat much more than if it is crumbly. Put plenty of 

 charcoal in this mash and you will never have any trouble from 

 feeding it moist. Only five parts water to one part liver 

 should now be used, as this will produce feather growth and 

 put on a finish for the show room. Keep up this method of 

 feeding them until ten days before the show. My method of 

 conditioning for the show room you will find on another page. 

 Now, my dear readers, I have given you my secrets of grow- 

 ing a bird from the shell to the show room in six months, and 

 have given you a system that has not stood a defeat in twelve 

 years, and I have also given you a system that has defeated 

 the best known in England, Canada, Australia, and the -United 

 States, and here is my proof, the winnings of the last three 

 shows in Madison Square Garden. (See cuts of ribbons.) 



TONIC AND FEATHER GROWER. 



We all know that a chicken changes its feathers three times, 

 from the shell to maturity. It is one continual growth of 

 feathers from seven to eight months. That is why you have 

 to feed so heavily to keep up this steady growth, and still make 

 frame and bone, and have the birds in good condition at the 

 same time. 



Now, to do this, I find that grain alone is not enough to keep 

 up the steady growth of feathers, bone and meat. Common 



