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January 21, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
HOW TO BOX “BABY CHICKS.” 
Can you give me an idea as to tlie best 
way to box day-old chicks, to express? 
Licking Co., O. H. a. a. 
In boxing “day olds” for shipment by 
express we use what we call “flats” or 
shallow boxes four to five inches high, 
15 to 18 inches wide, and about two 
feet long, holding 100 to 200 chicks. 
First take a strip of coarse muslin, or 
even burlap will do, and lay one end of 
it across the box on which place a 
layer of cotton batting, thin if the 
weather is warm, and thicker if cold. 
Then fold back the muslin and press 
the pad thus formed down evenly on 
the bottom and against the edges of the 
box, when it is ready for the chicks. 
Now, being very careful not to let the 
chicks get chilled, the box is filled 
evenly, but not piled up. Then fold the 
muslin across over the chicks and put 
on another layer of batting, enough to 
fill the box, then you fold back the mus¬ 
lin and nail strips closely for a cover, 
and they are ready for the devious ways 
of the express company. 
FLOYD Q. WHITE. 
The business of hatching and selling 
day-old chicks has increased enormously 
within two years. To many people who 
are not familiar with the poultry busi¬ 
ness this matter is entirely new, and 
they do not understand how it is pos¬ 
sible to send the tender little chicks any 
great distance without many of them 
dying on the way. As a matter of fact 
the chick 10 hours after he has kicked 
himself loose from the egg shell is in 
much better condition to be safely 
shipped 500 to 1,000 miles than he 
would be when a week or two weeks 
old. In his body is the entire yolk of 
the egg which was surrounded by the 
chick only a short time before it left 
the shell. This yolk furnishes sufficient 
nourishment to sustain the chick’s life 
for four or five days; the only thing 
to be provided is warmth; and that the 
chick itself furnishes, as each little body 
is a furnace generating heat, and if 
enough chicks are kept together, say 25 
to 50, and the heat is kept from being 
dissipated by a burlap or muslin cover 
over the box containing the chicks, they 
may be safely shipped any distance 
which can be covered by express trains 
in three or four days. The muslin cover 
allows sufficient ventilation, and prac¬ 
tically the greatest risk the chicks have 
to run is the care of the express agent. 
He may be overkind and put the chicks 
so near the stove or steampipes that 
they become overheated, or carelessly 
leave them where a strong draft of cold 
air may chill them; but with reasonable 
care they may be shipped 500 miles and 
the loss not exceed two or three per 
cent. 
This opens up great possibilities for 
the man who desires to start in the 
poultry business; for there is no expense 
for incubators and an incubator cellar, 
no loss from infertile eggs or chicks 
“dead in the shell,” and then better yet, 
he can have all his flock practically of 
the same age, which is a very great ad¬ 
vantage in raising the chicks. White 
Leghorn chicks a day old are advertised 
for sale in all the poultry magazines 
for $10 per 100. Suppose a man pays 
$50 for 500 chicks May 1. Allowing a 
loss by hawks, skunks and other causes 
of 20 per cent, he would have in the 
Fall 400 head, worth a dollar apiece. 
Or if he sold the cockerels for broilers 
when one to two pounds in weight, 
which would under ordinary conditions 
pay the entire cost of raising the pullets, 
he ought to have 200 good pullets ready 
to lay in September or October and 
keep it up all Winter. This, of course, 
is supposing that tire chicks have been 
well cared for from the time they were 
received. I have been asked “what pro¬ 
portion of the chicks received in this 
way can be expected to live?” I would 
answer, just about as many as if they 
had been hatched in your own house 
and carried across the road to the 
brooder. The brooding is the most im¬ 
portant part, and the heatless brooder 
has come to stay. 
My own experience and what I saw 
done by my neighbors last year con¬ 
vinces me that stronger and healthier 
chicks can be raised without heat than 
with. Mr. Fred Gammack raised 1000 
White Leghorn chicks last year in cheese 
boxes, simply cheese boxes, obtained at 
the grocery stores in Hartford. No arti¬ 
ficial heat whatever was used. Last 
Fall I went through his poultry houses, 
and never saw a thriftier lot of birds, 
and he tells me they are laying to beat 
anything in his experience. Mr. Gam- 
mack takes stiff paper—strawboard—and 
makes a little yard in front of the cheese 
box, tacking the strawboard to the sides 
of the box, and cutting an oval hole on 
each side of the box where the straw- 
board joins it, so that the chicks when 
they crowd in the corners, crowd them¬ 
selves through the hoies right into the 
box. An iron wire ring fitting loosely 
inside the box has a “sheet” sewed to 
it, and one or two cotton stuffed 
“blankets” are dropped on the “sheet.” 
The ring is suspended from the top edge 
of the box by bent wires. That is all 
the “mother” the chicks have, and it 
does the business. The cheese boxes 
cost nothing, the rest of the niaterial 
five or 10 cents. A cheap way certainly 
of brooding 25 or 30 chicks. Mr. Gam- 
mack had a lot of the old lamp brood¬ 
ers ; he tore the insides all out, retaining 
only the four sides and t'lie roof, and 
put the cheese boxes inside on the 
ground. When the chicks were two 
weeks old the paper “yard” was re¬ 
moved and the chicks had the run of 
the inside of the brooder, and remained 
there until large enough to be put in 
colony houses out in the cornfield. For 
the man who has not a suitable place to 
keep incubators, or the time to attend 
to them, the opportunity to buy day-old 
chicks is a great convenience. Orders 
for chicks should be sent into the deal¬ 
ers as early as possible, stating the time 
when chicks will be wanted. Two years 
ago I bought 200 day-old chicks—R. I. 
Reds; they had to be carried about four 
miles, then shipped to me by train, and 
carried two miles to my place. The 
chicks arrived in good condition, not a 
dead one in the lot, and I raised most 
of them, selling the cockerels for broil¬ 
ers. I selected 40 of the pullets in the 
Fall, put them in a 10x20 foot house, 
and they gave me 16 to 20 eggs a day 
all Winter. The Hall mammoth incu¬ 
bators, holding 20,000 to 30,000 eggs, 
hatching a larger percentage than smaller 
machines, and reducing the labor cost, 
have made the production of day-old 
chicks a very profitable business. 
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The Quaker Oats Co., 
Gentlemen:—I was feed¬ 
ing 1 bushel Gluten, 1 bush¬ 
el Bran, and 1 busiiel of 
Gornmeal mixed, (equal parts 
bulk), when I was advised to 
feed 1 bushel Gluten and 2 bushels of 
Schumacher Stock Feed. I was milk¬ 
ing 18 cows: in 3 days my cows gained 
62 lbs. of milk. They continued to do 
fine. I used up my supply of Schu¬ 
macher and went after more but the 
dealer was out. I bought bran and 
meal and went back to my former ra¬ 
tion. In 2 days my cows dropped down 
50 lbs. in milk. I bought more Schu¬ 
macher as soon as I could, and am 
getting very fine results again. My 
cows not only give more milk but keep 
in better condition. I have also fed 
my horses Schumacher Feed and I 
never had them keep in as good shape 
doing heavy work. 
C. B. Ames, Delevan, N. Y 
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W e Say it Aga in! 
You Are Losing 
Money and MUk 
Every Buy You Put Off 
testing the New Schumacher feeding plan. We don’t ask you to take 
our word for this—just read the words of your fellow-dairymen herewith. We 
could fill this and a dozen more pages with letters like these from the best 
and largest dairymen in the country, telling how this simple plan 
Saves $522 to $822. a Ton 
on feed and in addition produces a remarkable increase in milk and puts cows in the fin¬ 
est kind of condition. You certainly want such results, don’t you? You can get 
them as sure as day dawns if you will mix 
Schumacher Feed 
(to the amount of two-thirds your ration) with any protein concentrates such as Gluten, Malt Sprouts, 
Distiller’s Grains, Oil Meal, Cotton Seed Meal, Blue Ribbon Dairy Feed or similar high protein feeds you 
are feeding. That’s simple—that’s easy. The reason it works so well is: 
_ wm j. Milk prices were never higher. Coarse grain prices never more favorable, making it 
r iirStS possible to sell Schumacher at or below the price of bran. 
» Schumacher Feed, a kiln dried, ground corn, wheat, oat and barley products feed. 
Second" scientifically blended is the most perfect “balance” you can get to complete 
a ration such as you want for milk making and to build up and maintain good flesh and strength 
^ so necessary to enable your cows to stand long, heavy milking periods. 
By cutting down your high cost concentrates you save $5 to $8 a ton— have a 
better ration for the purpose— get more milk— and when cows are dry 
they are ready for the butcher without any expensive “fitting.” A test wjll prove 
jjAv and please you. 
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se you. As a hog feed you will find Schumacher especially fine. Get it at 
dealer, if he hasn’t it, write us. By all means try it now, 
while every drop of milk means money to you. "" 
The Quaker Oats Go*, 
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The Quaker Oats Co., 
Gentlemen: During tho past 
few months I have been feeding 
my dairy a ration composed of 
equal parts of Gluten Feed and 
Distillers Grain. About two 
weeks ago I left out the Dis¬ 
tillers Grain and began using 
Schumacher Feed in its place 
and feeding just the samo 
amount. In 2 days my dairy has 
gained 30lbs. of milk per day. 13 
of these cows have been milked 
since last March and April. 
Tho most important point in 
this test is tho fact that, while 
Schumacher’s cost me $6.C0 per 
ton less than tho Distillers Grain, 
my cows actually gained in milk 
production by feeding it. and at 
a time when, as every dairyman 
knows, it is the tendency for cows 
that have been milked continu¬ 
ously as long as these have, 
to shrink. 
J. E. Murray, Freedom.N.Y. 
