' Raising Incubator Chicks 165 



we might have to fiddle around half the summer, 

 building up the flock. 



Do not try to start day-old chicks unless you are 

 ready to give them exactly the protection they 

 need. Rapidly as this business has grown, it would 

 have grown far more rapidly had it not been for 

 htmdreds of beginners, or lack-wits, who tried to 

 offer the chicks something just as good. Poultry 

 that is well grown wiU stand a good deal of neglect 

 without fatal results, but little chicks droop and 

 die quickly if their quarters are not what they need. 

 It so happens that it is an easy matter, with 

 modem machines, to supply them with just the 

 right conditions at little cost. 



There are nearly as many hovers on the market 

 as there are incubators, and many of them are 

 exceUerit. For the l^ge flock of chickens, a hun- 

 dred or more, the coal-heated hover with the 

 large metal drum, is so simple, successful, and easy 

 to manage that it is hard to see how one can fail to 

 succeed with it. 



It may be set up in any small house, large 

 enough to hold it, and give room enough to 

 move about, where drafts will not blow across 

 the hover. 



