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/With a hopper or dish of proper feed within reach will al- 

 ways be full fed and cannot lose a moment's time. 



Perhaps yoUr eight weeks old chickens have reached the 

 uninteresting stage or the period of press of other work; 

 they are building fast and are every day requiring more 

 feed of the most nourishing kind. How can we supply 

 them with as little labor as by usijig liberal sized, food hop- 

 pers full at all times? 



Just add a supply of water and right kind'of sleeping 

 Accommodations, and you have chickens in the seventh 

 heaven; while if fed upon mash, there is a nerve racking, 

 "survival of the fittest" rush at every feed time to get what 

 they may, and long, anxious hunts between meals. How can 

 we expect to fatten a lot of cockerels that are quarrelsome 

 enough when full fed, but are veritable cannibals when 

 fed on "streak of fat and streak of lean "basis? We want 

 to get those quarrelsome fellows off our hands as early as 

 possible. First, because they are softer and bring better 

 prices; second, because when hard, it takes nearly twice 

 the feed to produce a pound of gain; third, because the 

 price during the fall months is steadily falling; fourth, the' 

 sooner they are out of the way, the more room we have 

 for the pullets. 



If possible, before they begin to crow, put them in a large 

 .grass yard out of sight of pullets or hens. Give them a 

 hopper of ground, rich food of a fattening nature, and coax 

 them to fill up at night with cracked or whole com, with 

 milk to drink if you have itj and we will stake our reputa- 

 tion that you will never return to the moist system of feeding. 

 Better Feeding for Less Expense. 



With our pullets grown to maturity upon a range and fed 

 with a slightly modified ration so they go to the laying 

 houses in good plump condition starting at once upon a 

 rich, highly nutritious mash in the hoppers, so blended 

 that they have no tendency to get over-fat, and with a good 

 mixture of grain thrown to them in litter once per day, have 

 we not solved most of the labor problems of poultry keep- 

 ing for the one man plant or the ten man outfit? 



Here we have hoppers so arranged that they will feed the 

 flock all day long for a week at a time without replenishing. 



