•Jht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1247 
Starting in the Poultry Business 
I wish to start a chicken farm. I like 
chickens and all animals. I think of 
buying 15 acres of land, where I would 
start in early with 5,000 baby chicks. 
From that I would keep for the next year 
1,000 layers, and the rest 1 would sell 
for broilers. I would keep the chickens 
on free range. How big a house should 
1 build for the baby chicks, and should 
I use oil or coal brooder? When they 
are growing what kind of house is best 
on the free range, colony or stationary 
house, and how big? How should I feed 
from the beginning until maturing? How 
big a house and how much land for 1,000 
layers? Should 1 keep the layers on free 
range? 1 want to have (rap-nests. Do 
you think the Cornell mixture is the best 
feed? What breed is most profitable? 
I would like to raise Barred Plymouth 
Bocks. What color are the eggs? l. n. 
To start in ns you propose, with no 
knowledge of the business, would be very 
sure to cost you all of your savings and 
result in complete failure. The poultx-y 
business must be learned, as any other 
business would be, and that is a matter 
of considerable time and expense. No 
other business is more full of pitfalls and 
opportunities for complete failure than 
is poultry keeping on a large scale. For 
• me who has not had long experience in 
raising chickens to start in the Spring 
with 5,0<X> baby chicks would be to court 
disaster, and that within a very few 
weeks. Don't attempt it. If you wish 
really to make a business of poultry 
keeping, try to obtain a position with 
<ome good poultry man and work for at 
leavst a year to learn the trade, or else 
start with a few chickens, say 500, and 
learn to handle them 'before investing 
your savings in a farm and equipment 
for several thousand. The handling of 
chickens and old fowls profitably is an 
art that must be learned by observation 
and practice, and cannot be imparted to 
you in a few words. Bveu the ability to 
make a good profit from a small flock is 
no proof that on*- would succeed with a 
large number. The best advice that I 
can give you is: Learn the A li Cs of 
the business, either by working for some 
good poultryman for at least a year, or 
by starting on a small scale and increas¬ 
ing your equipment and stock as you are 
able to do so profitably. M. b. d. 
Ipecac for Blackhead 
In feeding ipecac to turkeys to prevent 
blackhead how much is used at a time, 
and is it in liquid or pow’der form? I 
have four turkeys. h. v. 
The dose is one teaspoon of powdered 
ipecac mixed with dry mash enough to 
feed 20 turkeys. Commencing when about 
two weeks old, feed this twice a week 
until they are three months old. The 
ipecac is to be given in one day, does not 
need to be all put in one feeding, but can 
be distributed in two or three feeds of 
that day. The Doctors Wegeforth let all 
ages partake of it—old as well as young 
turkeys. After they are three months 
old it need not be fed so often: once in 
10 days is often enough. For four tur¬ 
keys one-fifth of a teaspoon would be 
the proper dose. Empty a teaspoonful on 
a piece of paper and divide into five equal 
heaps. One of these heaps mixed with 
enough dry mash for two or three feeds 
would be rhe proper dose. l)o this twice 
a week. GEORGE A. COSGROVE. 
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