SUMMER AND WINTER CARE 



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mites the boards will be covered with white specks and every 

 crack will be full of the mites. These are white when first 

 hatched but after filling themselves with blood from the hens 

 they are red. The flock of hens sitting each night on a mite 

 infested roost seldom lays enough eggs to pay the feed bill. 

 This is a good month in which to plan for next season's 

 business.' One of the first things to do is to learn to be 

 systematic. Save a certain time to feed and water. Feed 

 at the same hours every day. It makes little difference 

 whether you feed mash at eight o'clock in the morning, noon 

 or four o'clock in the afternoon, only feed it at the same 

 hour every day. The fowls soon learn when to expect it. 

 Do not feed mash one day in the morning and the next day 



in the afternoon. A change of this kind from one style of 

 feed to another often causes trouble and interferes with the 

 egg yield. 



Many men who give their cows and horses the best of 

 care let the hens roost on the fence and dig their rations out 

 of the straw stack or manure pile, or perhaps grudgingly 

 throw them a few oats once a day. This class of men always 

 say, "hens don't pay." Give the hens a chance. Put 

 them on equal footing, as to care and housing, with your 

 cows and other stock and the chances are they will pay you 

 a larger percentage of profit than any other live-stock on 

 the farm. 



YARDS CONTAINING SMALL CHICKS AT TISHELTON 

 Note the grass runways and ample shade. Chicks never do well where vegetation does not thrive. Rich soil is as good for chicks as for vegetation. 



CARE OF VALUABLE CHICKS IN BAD WEATHER 



HOW CHICKS ARE MANAGED AND FED ON THE 120-ACRE POULTRY FARM 

 OF U. R. FISHEL— SOME INTERESTING VIEWS OF THE OUTDOOR BROOD- 

 ERS BY MR. SEWELLA— SIMPLE METHOD OF HERDING THE CHICKS 



G. M. CURTIS 



EARLY in June, Mr. Sewell, artist, made a trip to the 

 Bluegrass section of Kentucky to investigate the 

 method of raising turkeys for market and report 

 same in these pages. Enroute home, about June 12th, he 

 stopped at Fishelton, in Indiana, the home of Mr. U. R. 

 Fishel, originator and extensive breeder of the "Best In the 

 World" strain of j White Plymouth Rocks. While there Mr. 

 Sewell made several photographs of growing chicks and had 

 intended "to pre- 

 pare an article en- 

 titled "Protective 

 Development o f 

 Valuable White 

 Plymouth Rock 

 Chicks in a Rainy 

 Season," but ar 

 sudden illness pre- 

 vented him from 

 completing the 

 article. He had 

 mounted and dec- 

 orated the photo- 

 graphs of White 



Folding device used by Mr. Fishel in herding small chicks. 



Rock chicks taken by him at Mr. Fishel's home and liad 

 started to amplify his notes. The photographs as deco- 

 rated by Mr. Sewell are presented herewith. 



On finding that Mr. Sewell's notes were incomplete, we 

 wrote Mr. Fishel and asked him to supply us, in writing, 

 substantially the same data and ideas he had given Mr. 

 Sewell I verbally. Mr. Fishel promptly complied and the 

 following paragraphs are from his letter: 



Care of Chicks at 

 Fishelton 

 "No doubt a 

 large percent o f 

 the chicks hatched 

 each spring are 

 lost during stormy 

 weather, therefore 

 our method of car- 

 ing for chicks in 

 bad weather will 

 perhaps interest 

 and prove of bene- 

 fit to your read- 

 ers. That was Mr. 



