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OilCans 
Guaranteed 
Capacity 
Each is carefully constructed of 
highest grade steel and designed to 
give a lasting service regardless 
of the humps and jolts of daily trans¬ 
portation. To make them easy to clean 
und keep perfectly sanitary all seams 
are soldered smooth and the can heavily 
tinned. Tha Sturges trademark on a 
can is a guarantee of accurnte capacity 
and a long-lived, economical service. 
Write tor Catalog 60 
Sturges & Burn Mfg. Co. 
Makers of Sturges Guaranteed 
Capacity Milk Cans 
Chicago Illinois 
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Calf Scours 
Save every Calf. High meat and milk 
prices make control of Calf Scours 
more necessary than ever before. 
Scouring calves indicate a germ infection 
that is likely to run through your entire herd 
with serious losses. Tho loss of one calf is 
had enough, hut nothing compared to your 
loss when the infection spreads, as it will 
unless checked. Then your year’s work in 
building up your herd is wasted and your 
profits lost. 
B-K, the powerful germicide and disin¬ 
fectant will promptly stop scours and finally 
banish it from the premises. B-K contains 
no poison, acid nor oil. When used internally 
it destroys germs, heals inflamed membranes, 
jelieves irritation, restores healthy action. 
B-K may bo given freely in milk and drink¬ 
ing water. 
The B-K plan is simple and practical. It is 
giving wonderful results. Send for •‘evidence” 
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BUFFALO HOUSEWRECKING & SALVAGE CO. 
500 Walden Avenue Buffalo, N.Y. 
WILSON FEED MILL 
For grinding corn in the ear and 
■mall grain. 
Has gpecinl crusher attachment 
which first breaks the ears of 
corn, which can he shoveled right 
into the hopper. Also Bono and 
Shell Mill* and Bone Cutteri. 
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WILSON BROS., Bor.S. Ea.ton, Pa. 
High Wool Prices 
Tlicy'ic paying Mg money for long, even wool— 
bet nof for nocoiiiI cuts. Shear with » machine 
•uni got nil the wool In one clip, (let n Stewart 
No. 0 MuII Hearing Machine, Clots 15% more 
wool niKl (foes away with second cuts. Weal 
for flocks up to 800 head. Only $14. Send $2— 
pay balance on arrival. Write for catalog. 
CHICAGO FLEXIBLE SHAFT COMPANY 
Dept. B Ml, 12th St. & Central Ave., Chicago, Ill. 
Chicks in a Colony Brooder 
Can you (HI mo how to food and core 
for baby chicks in a colony brooder. Is 
sweet or sour milk of any value to chicks? 
Pennsylvania. c. j. re. 
Before placing the clucks in the brooder 
see (lint, it is clean, dry and warm, that 
the heater is properly regulated and that 
the floor is covered with chaff, sand, or 
both. While these brooders are made of 
sufficient, capacity to. care for one or two 
thousand eljicks in a flock, much better 
results will ordinarily be obtained if not. 
more Ilian 500 thicks are kept together, 
and these chicks should be of practically 
the same ago. A variation of more than 
a week in ages leads to unequal growth 
and development, due to the handicap 
which flic smaller and weaker chicks suf¬ 
fer in the presence of their more vigorous 
fellows. 
.A house, or room, 10 or 12 foot in size, 
will he none too large for a flock of 500 
chicks, though smaller quarters are fre¬ 
quently used. Whatever the size of the 
brooder, nil outdoor run should be* pro¬ 
vided so that the chicks can get out upon 
(lie ground after a week or ten days from 
hatching; in warm weather, earlier. The 
temperature beneath the hover should be 
kept at about 100 at least early in the 
season, though it may be considerably 
lower Infer. A thermometer is not needed ; 
it is better to observe (lie actions of the 
chicks. There should he heat enough so 
that they oil'll quickly become warm after 
having been out of doors and so that they 
will lie spread out in a circle beneath the 
hover or just beyond its edge. Any ten¬ 
dency to crowd together and pile up in 
heaps shows that chicks are not sufficient¬ 
ly warm; they will snuggle comfortably 
side by side and chirp contentedly when 
warm ; if cold, they will peep in distress 
and will attempt to get beneath each 
other for warmth, thus piling up and fre¬ 
quently smothering. For the first day 
or two, they should he confined by wire 
netting near the hover so that they will 
learn, where the source of heat is; then 
they should have the run of the house, 
und, smui after, an outdoor yard. 
( Chicks should not he fed until at least 
•id hours have elapsed from the time of 
their removal from the incubator; that is, 
from the time that the last to arrive have 
hatched. They should then have water or 
milk, and sour milk by preference, und 
line chick grit, in addition to food. So 
far as its food value is concerned, it 
makes little difference whether the milk 
is sweet or sour, hut the lactic acid of 
sour milk is believed to discourage (he 
growth of some undesirable organisms 
within the chick’s digestive apparatus and, 
therefore, promote health. Some dip the 
cliiek’s beak into sour milk after remov¬ 
ing it from tin* incubator to see that its 
first food has these protective properties. 
The first chick food, in addition to the 
sour milk, should be finely cracked chick 
grains scattered lightly in the litter, or, 
perhaps, until they have learned to eat 
it, fed on shallow trays. Iiolled oats are 
easily seen nd picked up from the litter 
and so help o train the chick to hunt for 
its food. As said, chick grit should be 
given with the first food and thereafter 
kept, always accessible. Either milk or 
water should also always he within reach, 
as the chick drinks but little at a time 
and that little frequently. A portion of a 
Chick’s rations should he in the form of 
mash, preferably dry, und either this or 
wheat bran alone should, like the water 
or milk, he always accessible in hoppers 
or protected trays or boxes. 
Lorn, wheat and oats constitute the 
grains needed by fowls from chickhood 
to maturity. Other grains, seeds, etc., 
ma.v he added to cheapen the ration, but 
that is their purpose rather than because 
of any need for variety, Up to five or 
six weeks chicks should have finely 
cracked ; ins, after that they will eat 
them couisely broken nr whole. For chick 
Ki'ft in, ft mixture* of finely trucked coru f 
cracked wheat, and steelcut, or pinhead 
oats make an ideal grain ration. Exact 
proportions are unnecessary, though one 
part oats, two parts corn, and three parts 
wheat have been much used. Rolled outs 
may he substituted for pinhead oats or fed 
alone. Little chicks find them readily in 
the litter and seem to like them. For 
a dry mash, a good formula is equal parts, 
by weight, of common], wheat bran, wheat 
middlings, sifted ground oats (hulls re¬ 
moved!, and sifted beef scrap (coarse 
chunks removed). While having wheat 
bran or their dry mash constantly before 
them, chicks should he fed their grain 
four or five times daily, giving them little 
enough each time to keep them a little 
less than fully satisfied. At least once 
daily, clucks should have green food in 
addition to their other ration. Nothing 
seems to be liked better than lettuce 
loaves-, ami, if one has a garden it is not 
dmicult to supply these to a large liniii- 
, i* °1 small chicks. Lawn clippings, 
heels, mangels, sprouted oats, and other 
vegetables are all suitable for chicks 
As to the value of sour milk for chick¬ 
ens ol all ages, it, is not indispensable but 
holds a place of greatest importance when 
it is available. It may well he the first 
food and drink given the chick, and. if 
they can have an unlimited supply while 
growing, there are few other things that 
will contribute as much to their welfare. 
l eg weakness and other deformities will 
he avoided if ehieks are given access to 
the ground early mid are not too closely 
con lined and over-warmed in their brood¬ 
ers It is better not to hatch before April, 
or Into in March, when tho desired mini- 
her of chicks can be gotten out during 
tho natural hatching season. yi. B. D. 
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