38 Money in Broilers and Squabs. 



"The next two weeks at ninety degrees to eighty-nine degrees, 

 and after that from eighty-eight degrees to eighty degrees. Re- 

 member that the degree of heat is the all important, and we should 

 be just as careful here as in the incubator. 



"I will, however, go back to the incubator. I do not believe 

 in. moisture except after the eggs commence to pip. I have tried 

 it with incubators in a cellar, and also above ground. The egg itself 

 will tell us how to proceed. The evaporation of the egg is the 

 guide. The chick must have room in which to turn itself while 

 cracking around the shell. If too much moisture is used, the chick 

 will grow too large, and being wedged in a house too small for it, 

 will die. The ventilators in the incubator alone are to be de- 

 pended on for proper evaporation of the egg. Each person will 

 have to determine for himself just how much ventilation to give by 

 frequently looking at the eggs (three or four) and not how the air 

 space is growing. The evaporations should be gradual until by the 

 eighteenth day the air space should occupy at least one fourth of 

 the eggs, (some operators put it at one-third.) The principal of the 

 thing is that the wider we open the ventilators the more air passes 

 through the machine and the more moisture this dry air will extract 

 from the egg. I usually commence by giving very little ventilation 

 the first week, and then, gradually giving more until the eggs are 

 evaporated about right, and then when they commence to pip I 

 give a little moisture, and partly close the ventilators until all are 

 out. Of course the machine will have something to do with this. 

 I now have one machine in which I have to give all the ventilation I 

 can from the start, (the ventilation is poor) while in other machines 

 I run as stated above. 



"In cold weather less ventilation should be given than in warm, 

 for the greater the difference between outside and inside tempera- 

 ture the greater will be the amount of air that will pass through the 

 machine. I think we all understand that principal. I have demon- 

 strated, to my own personal satisfaction, that there is money in 

 broilers when it is combined with eggs, or eggs and fruit. There 

 should be not less than twenty acres of land with the plant and the 

 more the better. Just so soon as the people learn all these under- 

 lying principles that go to make up the full rounded whole, then, 

 and not till then, will there cease to be failures. One very impor- 

 tant point to be considered is that we should aim to have something 

 to sell at all seasons of the year." 



"One of the prettiest sights I know of is a brooder full of little 

 chicks from one to ten days old," says a correspondent of the New 

 Vork Tribune. "I never grow weary watching their graceful mo- 

 tions as they deport themselves in their little playground, indus- 

 triously scratching in the clean sand, playing at leapfrog or contest- 

 ing the possession of a toothsome morsel of meat or bread crumb, 

 keeping up meanwhile a ceaseless chatter. The pleasing sight of 

 heightened if they belong to a variety of breeds. But to raise these 

 little animated pufifballs is where the work and skill comes in. To 

 bring them safely through all the perils of babyhood and feathering- 

 out — there's the rub. To keep them well is the secret of success. 



