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March 5, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
CHICKENS IN GREENHOUSES. 
In November, 190S, a farmer in this 
vicinity gave us 12 little chickens which, 
owing to the season of the year, he had 
no place to keep, and he could not bear 
to kill them. The old hen had stolen 
her nest and hatched her brood in such 
cold weather there seemed no way to 
keep the babies warm while they were 
growing up. We finally decided to give 
them a corner in our greenhouse. The 
hen, which the farmer loaned us, was 
placed in a small coop, and the chickens 
allowed their liberty on the ground. 
Here they spent most of the day in 
search of worms, and eating the green 
leaves of the Wandering Jew that grows 
so freely under the carnation benches. 
When-.they were old-.enough to do dam¬ 
age by scratching, the hen was.returned 
to her owner, and the chickens confined 
to the coop and a yard about 3 x 4 feet, 
with ..board bottom. They.grew well, and 
10 of the 12 were sold for broilers at a 
good price in January. They were 
troubled a little with rheumatism, prob¬ 
ably due to being kept on a board floor.' 
When our first hatch of 70 —incubator 
chickens came off early, in. March,- we 
decided - to try, them in the. greenhouse. 
It was our intention to give the Philo 
brooders a thorough test in 1909. but as 
the weather was very cold at this time, 
it looked like.a great deal of trouble to 
care for the little chickens in the Philo 
coops out of doors. So we put two of 
the brooders on the ground in one corner 
of the greenhouse, not far from the hot- 
water pipes, and in these the chickens 
THE CHILD AND HER CHICKS. 
were placed. Some boards were set up 
to keep them near the brooders, and a 
little chaff spread on the ground. A hap¬ 
pier lot of youngsters no one ever saw. 
And how they grew! On bright days we 
put them on to the benches in the sun, 
and a pretty picture they made among 
the flowers. After a few days they were 
given the run of the greenhouse. When 
three weeks old these chickens were re¬ 
moved to the Philo brooders and coops 
jut of doors, and the next hatch from the 
incubator installed in the greenhouse. At 
the end of two weeks these were taken to 
the coops, for as it came nearer Spring, 
and the sucrose higher, the air in the 
greenhouse was too hot for the little fel¬ 
lows. 
At the north end of our greenhouse is 
a separate room over the furnace. On 
very cold nights the brooders were car- 
rried from the coops to this room, and 
stacked one above another, with a piece 
of wire screen over each opening to pre¬ 
vent the chickens falling out. The brood¬ 
ers in the greenhouse were also placed, 
in this room while the plants were being 
umigated. While the above plan worked 
well with us, we doubt if it would be 
practical on a large scale. A much more 
convenient way would be to have the 
chickens in a house by themselves, but 
until we can do this, we shall continue 
to keep them for the first two or three 
weeks in the greenhouse. We certainly 
have been much more successful with 
this method than with brooders heated 
with lamps. By anyone who is interest¬ 
ed in both poultry and flowers, we be¬ 
lieve these two kinds of business can be 
carried on together with good success, 
and afford more pleasure than either one 
alone. F. M. 
Vermont. 
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