58 CHICKS 



Langworthy: About fifty. Mr. Lackore: Not over one 

 hundred, seventy-five is better. 



Question. ' How much run do you give them the first 

 week? 



Answers. Mr. Duston : A space about four by five feet 

 in front of the brooder and no more until they are accus- 

 tomed to finding their way back to the hover. Mr. Dodge: 

 A pen five by ten feet indoors and a yard five by forty out- 

 doors. Mr. Ring: In cold weather they are confined in the 

 brooder; in warm weather they have a covered run three 

 by twelve feet. Mr. Langworthy: In cold weather we keep 

 them in the brooder. Mr. Lackore: A room eight by eight 

 feet. 



Question. How much run do you give them the second, 

 third and fourth weeks, and after the fourth week? 



Answers. Mr. Duston: They are allowed a pen ten by 

 twelve feet the second week, and the whole of an enclosed 

 run during the next two weeks and unlimited range there- 

 after. Mr. Dodge: We give them the same room as during 

 the first week until they are placed in colony houses and 

 have free range. Mr. Ring: , The same area as the first 

 week until the fourth when it is increased to a space ten by 

 ten feet and after the fourth week they have free range. 

 ^Ir. Langworthy: The second week a small inclosure in 

 front of the brooder, the third, a room ten by ten feet, the 

 fourth, an outside i"un ten by twenty-five feet, after the' 

 fourth free range. Mr. Lackore: The same as the first 

 week until after the fourth week when they have free range. 

 What is One Man's Work? 



Question. How many chicks can one man hatch and 

 rear with incubators and brooders in one season, hatching 

 during March, April and May, doing all the work him- 

 self? 



Answers. Mr. Duston: Do not like to state definite!}', 

 know one party who raised a thousand chicks for me and 

 the same number for himself besides caring for a flock of 

 a thousand hens, but he was not afraid of work and did 

 not go visiting to any great extent. Mr. Dodge: With 

 proper equipment, about five thousand, devoting his entire 

 time to the work. Mr. Ring: Give it up. I raise from a 



