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spraying them with lice paint after each brood is removed, 

 giving time for the fumes to disappear before placing more 

 , chicks in the brooders. Mr. Langworthy: By the use of 

 the hot water and disinfectant mentioned above. Mr. 

 Lackore: Open the brooders and let in the sun which is the 

 best purifier. 



Feeding the Chicks. 



Question. How soon after the chicks are placed in the 

 brooder do you give them the first food? 



Answers. Mr. Duston: They have rolled oats as soon as 

 they will pick them up, or about as soon as they are placed 

 in the brooder. Mr. Dodge: From 24 to 36 hours depending 

 upon what hour of the day they were hatched. Mr. Ring: 

 Forty-eight hours. Mr. Langworthy: I give them a little 

 as soon as they are placed in the brooder. Mr. LackOre: 

 Immediately. 



Question. What do you feed the chicks during the first, 

 second, third and fourth week, and after the fourth week? 



Answers. Mr. Duston: During the first four weeks, 

 rolled oats, a prepared chick food and occasionally apples and 

 some cut clover, after the fourth week, hard grains. Mr. 

 . Dodge: We feed nothing but prepared chick food during 

 the first four weeks, but add a little cooked beef after the 

 first week. Mr. Ring : We feed the first week steel cut oats, 

 milk, grit, charcoal and beef scraps, the second and third 

 weeks a prepared chick food is added, the fourth we also 

 feed ground oats and cracked wheat and after that time, 

 add whole wheat ^.nd when large enough whole oats and 

 a mash of cornmeal and bran mixed with milk. Mr. Latag- 

 worthy: We feed prepared chick food about. four weeks and 

 then add cracked wheat and corn, gradually reducing the 

 chick food until it is left out entirely. Mr. Lackore: The 

 first and- second weeks, prepared chick food, third and 

 fourth weeks, chick food and beef scraps, after the fourth 

 week wheat, kaffir com, cracked corn, oats and barley, with 

 plenty of grit and charcoal constantly before them. 



Question. How many little chicks do you put in one 

 flock? 



Answers. Mr. Duston: Never over fifty. Mr. Dodge: 

 About fifty, never more. Mr. Ring: Forty to fifty. Mr. 



