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Incubating and Brooding 
I have just built n henhouse 20x30 ft., 
much after the Cornell plan;.4 ft. at one 
end for grain, etc., and calculate 1 can 
keep about 130 laying hens. I have also 
built a brooder house, SxlO ft., double 
floor, matched siding. two windows, and 
ventilator between, also one in back to 
D--C ill Summer. Last season I bought 
75*day-old chicks. I have no good place 
to set the incubator, either in the family 
sitting-room or an upstairs room. In the 
sitting-room it would he about 7 ft. from 
the stove, near a partition wall, and in 
the chamber in an unheated room, or one 
that might have a small stove. The best 
we can do with it the heat goes too low 
as it grows toward morning, or, if we 
turn the light up to guard against that, 
it gets too hot. I tried it once in the 
collar, but it is so large T could not get 
the beat up. Are there self-regulating 
incubators that will run for eight hours 
without attention? L. B. M. 
Michigan. 
Any first-class incubator is self-regu- 
lating and gas-proof if kept where the 
changes in temperature are not extreme. 
A cellar is a good place, because the tem¬ 
perature there is equable, but incubators 
are very frequently run in sitting and 
dinine rooms used by the family, and with 
success. _ The jarring that they would 
receive is of no consequence. Any of 
the high-grade makes should give no 
trouble in a living-room unless placed 
where they would get the direct heat from 
a stove in which a constant fire was not 
kept. Au tin used bedroom should be a 
good place for an incubator, for there 
it would not be subject to quite such ex¬ 
treme changes of temperature as might 
occur in a living-room with a stove in it. 
There is something wrong with an incu¬ 
bator that will not beat up in a cellar; 
that is usually the best place to operate 
one. Whether you could use a eoal-bur- 
ing brooder stove to advantage of nor de- 
P nds much upon the number of chicks 
that you will have of the same age to put 
t gether. Flocks of from 200 to 300 are 
best kept in such a brooder-house .vcu 
have with a coal-burning heater of the 
rO<brhiok size . Two or more lamp-heated 
lmvers might be placed in thi- building 
for smaller flocks, but there is nothing 
* ' o i uni In the coal-burning stoves, and. 
if I had to purchase either lamp brooders 
or a stove, J should nnhesitariugly get 
the latter. 
With a coal heater in your brooder- 
house. partitions might be used to divide 
small flocks of different ages, but it is 
seldom satisfactory to attempt to raise 
different ages together. If you do not 
wish t<> raise more than 75 to 100 chicks, 
however, and after the first of April. I 
presume that a large-sized lamp-heated 
hover in your brooder-house would an- 
s er your purpose. These can be pur¬ 
chased from the brooder manufacturing 
houses, ready to install in a colony-house, 
with tin* lamp compartment outside. Two 
are often used in the same house, with 
wire partitions to separate the flocks; bat 
two would probably cost you nearly as 
much as one stove, and I should much 
prefer the stove if. as 1 -aid. I could 
have all my chicks of the same age. 
if. B. D. 
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Poor Laying 
I built a new house last Fall. 20x22 ft.. 
*he West Virginia type. I have 100 hens. 
S. C. White Leghorns. I think T am 
giving them the host, of care ami ..ling 
them plenty, but they are n<*t laying well. 
I get from six to 12 eggs a day. 1 feed 
three times a day; wheat and oafs in 
morning, and bran, meal, and middlings 
mash at doq», At night l feed all the 
torn they will eat. up clean. I have a 
feed hopper with a dry mash by them all 
the time. I keep plenty ..f oyster shells 
by them, and all the cabbage they will 
75 day-old chicks. I have no good place 
eat; plenty of water to drink, o. \v. c. 
You are feeding your Auric enough, ap¬ 
parently, but. v>*u are not giving them an 
egg-making ration. The feeds thar you 
mention are all good, but they lark ihe 
protein found in meal and skhn-niilk, and 
without which good egg production iu the 
Winter cannot, be secured. The dry mash 
that you are using may contain meat 
scrap, hut it would have to contain a 
great deal to balance the other feeds used. 
Try ihe following method of feeding, and 
I ih'tik that you will find your egg yield 
increasing in greater degree than tin* ad¬ 
vance in season would naturally account 
for. 
Feed y,mr wheat and oats in litter in 
the morning, giving considerably Itss than 
the fowls would eat if permitted, perhaps 
three to four quarts to ea<‘h 100 fowls. 
At night give the flock all the whole ecru 
ihat it will eat. Keep the following mash 
dry before the whole flock nil Ihe Fine: 
l’.qual parts by weight of corn meal, wl e* » 
brail, wheat middlings, ground oat-, fin ! 
a high grade of beef scrap. If you lmv ■ 
all tl»e skim-milk that the low's wiH 
drink, you may reduce the proportion * ' 
meat scrap without loss; but one or the 
other is essential to good production. As 
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feel that you need one. a moderate feed¬ 
ing of the above mash at noon, moistened 
with skim-milk or water, may be used. 
Do not use this, however, until your 
fowls become aeenstomed to the elvtnge 
in ration by eating the dry uiash for a 
time. Your other details of management 
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