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will be interrupted to discuss possible troubles that may 

 have been encountered meantime. 



Chick Troubles and Diseases 



The reader, especially the novice, might assume from 

 the description given that we still have all the chicks that 

 we counted out of the boxes. If such were the case there 

 would be no money in egg-farming — it would be too easy 

 to be profitable. 



We count on raising to the broiler and egg-laying 

 stages about 80 per cent of the chicks hatched. Judging 

 by what you read in descriptions of brooding appliances 

 this may seem startling to you. And to the experienced 

 man who uses another method it may seem that we do 

 a lot of unnecessary work and spend a lot of time to get 

 such poor ( ?) results. To the latter might be given the 

 reminder that we are dealing with 1500 chicks all the time 

 — if we had to do all these things in twenty or thirty 

 different compartments, opening and closing that many 

 gates for each operation, we would never "arrive." As 

 a matter of fact the writer can easily handle from 4,500 to 

 5,000 chicks single handed and alone on the plan herein 

 given ; and he not only can do it but he does and he 

 handles a lot of other work along with it. 



The percentage of chicks raised is based on a year 

 after year average and handling from five to six lots each 

 season. In good seasons we do far better — we had one 

 lot of 1,650 this year (1919) out of which the total brooder 

 house mortality was only 85 chicks. This is the best 

 record we ever made with such a large lot. It is not safe 

 to count on doing that well one year with another in 



