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The Care of Little Chicks 
Will you explain to me the reasons for 
tvhich it is recommended to keep baby 
chickens for 48 hours without food? 
Evidently one has to take them away 
from the hen. or can the latter be left 
for so long a time without food also? 
If taken away from her for 48 hours, 
does the mother take kindly to them when 
returned to her? I am an amateur; my 
first chickens were raised for a few weeks 
in a warm, rather dark cellar. I left 
them with the mother and gave them 
right away hard-boiled eggs and bread 
and milk or cornmeal and milk, either 
sweet or sour, and, of course, some wa¬ 
ter, when they had finished eating. I 
gave them another supply and the floor 
furnished grit. I had splendid success. 
Last Summer a farmer told me that I 
ought to put them on the grass in the 
yard ; that it was better for them. I did 
it and lost one-fourth of them. I gave 
them also buttermilk flour (a new thing 
to me). I certainly respect science and 
experience; yet it seems to me that na¬ 
ture knows how to take care of itself, and 
that the best way is to keep close to it. 
hut the question is. what is nature’s way. 
left to itself, with baby chickens? What 
is the cheapest way. consistent with best, 
results, to feed chickens? f. a. 
New York. 
Colony Brooder 
Use it 30 days at our expense. You 
take no risk. Burns coal or natural 
gas. Easy to operate. 
Write for booklet 
and prices. 
J. R. WOTHERSPOON 
244 N. Front Street 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Slop Hatching WeakChicks 
With Cheap Incubators 
Remember, it is not how 
many you hatch that 
counts, but how many 
you raise. A Queen 
costs but little more, 
and the extra chicks 
that live and grow soon 
pay the difference. 
Queen Incubators 
Hatch Chicks That Live and Grow 
Accuratels regulated—taking care of a variation of 
70 degrees without danger. Built of genuine Bed- 
wood—very scarce in these days of imitation. Cheap¬ 
er woods, and pasteboard lining in iron and tin ma¬ 
chines, retain the odors to weaken and kill the 
hatching chicks. 
Start your chicks with a Queen constitution and they 
will make money for you. Catalog free. 
Queen Incubator Co. Lincoln, Nebr. 
INCUBATOR 
The accepted standard machine that hatches 
the highest percentage of finest chicks. . 
Most efficient yet simple 
method of heat, moistureand 
ventilation control. Most 
costly to build, slightly high¬ 
er in price, but cheapest as 
judged by results. If you 
demand complete tatisfac- 
tion you will choose it. Send 
for free catalog. 
Prairie State Incubator Co. 
Main St., Homer City. Penn. 
ONE TURN of CRANK 
TURNS 
EVERY EGG 
Without opening incubator 
Best Constuitcttox 
Simplest to Operate 
60—100—150 and 
200 Egg Sizes 
Write for Catalogue 
ROLLER TRAY INCUBATOR CO. 
300 Grant Ave. 
NUTLEY, NEW JERSEY 
(95 Buys 140-Egg| 
Champion 
Belle City Incubator 
T 
Over 
IJot -Water. Copper Tank, Double Ui’ers 
Boerxl .S, ; l f-Regulated. With S7.55 
1 Hot-Water 140 -Cluck Brooder —both only $1S.5C 
k Freight Prepaid {&&? 
I fallowed on express. Guaranteed 
Special Offers provide ways t 
■^Zpeurn extra money. Order Now. © 
^ £ rr,tofo *;book,“Hatching Facts.' 
I t» it 8 Free and tells all. Jim Rohan, Brea 
[Belle City Incub ator Co.. Box 48 , Racine. Wis 
150!hkk 
/Both 
for 
Rockies 
, Incubator covered with 
asbestOB and galvanized 
iron; triple walls.cop- 
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mometer. 30 days'trial—money back i 
it not O.K. Write for FREE catalog. 
ironclad Incubator Co. Box 101 Racine 
| If Ordered Together. Freight ] 
1 J ea8t °f ltockies. Hot wa-. 
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' Rad—ood l dead air space, double gloss ‘ 
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^Wisconsin Incubator Co„ Box 102 Racine, t 
When a chick is hatched, there is still 
enclosed within its body a portion of the 
undigested yolk of the eggs which serves 
as its food and for the disposal of which 
about 48 hours are needed. To give a 
chick additional food during this period 
would be to overload its digestive organs. 
A sitting hen should have grain before 
her while sitting so that she will be fully 
fed at all times and so not disposed to 
take her chicks from the nest until her 
instinct tells here that it is time to begin 
the hunt for their food. The chicks should 
be left with the mother hen until she 
leaves the nest with them. While chicks 
might be left for a few days in a warm, 
dry cellar without harm, they should be 
gotten out upon grass at the earliest op¬ 
portunity. They would not long thrive 
under cellar conditions, though they 
might endure them for a time. 
Buttermilk, or any other milk, sweet 
or sour, is one of the best foods for young 
chicks. It should be given from the 
start, and freely ; probably no other food 
can contribute so much to the health and 
growth of the young chicks as milk in 
some form. A semi-solid condensed but¬ 
termilk is now upon the market and is 
proving a boon to those who cannot ob¬ 
tain milk in other form at a reasonable 
price. As buttermilk was probably never 
fed to young chicks in a state of nature, 
to which many people seem to think it 
necessary to return, it seems fair to as¬ 
sume that man has improved upon nat¬ 
ural methods of chick rearing: in fact, if 
nature had been left in full control, we 
should still have to go to the jungles of 
the tropics to find any chicks at e” 
M. B. D. 
Specifications for Henhouse 
I am thinking of building a hennery 
this Spring. The size of this building is 
to be 12 ft. wide and 40 ft. long. 8 ft. in 
front and G ft. in back, with a slope roof. 
I wish to have eight windows in it. size 
of house windows, ordinary two-pane win¬ 
dows. south side, and on the east eud of 
this building I want a partition ceiled 
from floor to roof, leaving a space, say 
10x12. for brooder stove and chicks. When 
through brooding I wish to remove stove 
end use for layers. Now what 1 wish to 
know is this: About how much lumber 
do I require to build it. also how much 
concrete for floor and foundation? 
Part of the foundation is to be filled in 
with stones at bottom of trench. ITow 
much roofing paper is required? The sid¬ 
ing I can buy here for about $70 per 
thousand feet, Oregon fir siding. 
New York. j. A. G. 
In the first place. I should not recom¬ 
mend a poultry building of only 12 ft. 
depth. More material is required for a 
narrow building than for one of equal 
capacity hut more nearly square in de¬ 
sign. and the very narrow building is not 
i as comfortable for the fowls, giving them 
little opportunity to get away from the 
exposed front of the building into warmer 
quarters in the rear. If necessary to use 
one end of the building for brooding 
chicks, an undesirable thing to do. I 
should make the dimensions of a building 
of this capacity 16x30 ft. I should very 
much prefer, however, to build a sepa¬ 
rate, portable brooder-house about 0x10 
ft. in size and make the poultry -house 
20x24 ft. in its dimensions. The amount 
of lumber required will depend, of course, 
upon the size and style of the building 
and method of construction. It cannot be 
figured without knowing these particulars. 
Walls need not be double and building 
paper need not be used unless desired. 
If matched boards, placed vertically from 
sill to plate, are used for the walls they 
may be of sinsrle thickness, and both paper 
and siding will be saved. It is essential 
only that the walls be airtight unless 
siding is desired for its appearance. After 
deciding upon size and style of building 
any local carpenter can quickly give you 
a rough estimate, at least, of the amount 
of building material required. M. B. D. 
Chairman of District Council: “Now, 
gentlemen, why can't we put our ’ends to¬ 
gether and erect some of them woodcu 
houses?”—London Bystander. 
Pci in ts 
and 
White 
One 
Operation 
will put your poultry houses, stables, dairy buildings, 
pig pens, cellars, etc., in shape for the summer—make 
them lighter, sweet-smelling and sanitary. The work will 
he easier to do. the results better, and the cost no more than 
whitewash and disinfectants—if you use 
Dismi ecVxnsYIVu\ePa\n\ 
a white pa’nt in powder form that is combined with a disinfectant many timea stronger than 
pure carbolic acid. _ Carbola is neither poisonous nor caustic and is turned intoliquid paint 
Bimply by mixing with water—no straining or waiting. It can be applied with a brush or spray 
pump to wood, brick, stone, cement or over whitewash. Will not clog the sprayer. Doeo not 
blister, flake or peel. Has no disagreeable odor. One gallon—less than 10c worth of powder— 
covers 200 square feet. 
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Used Instead of Whitewash and Disinfectants 
It fights day and night against the dangers of the contagious diseases that affect poultry and 
livestock—helps prevent their introduction and spread among flocks and herds. Carbola kills 
lice, mites and fly eggs, but will not harm the smallest chick or stock thatlick3 a painted 
surface. It is an excellent lice powder. Shake it into the nests, dust baths and litter. 
Y ou can get Carbola at your hardware, seed, drug, or pa f nt dealer. I f not, order di¬ 
rect— shipmenttbedayorderisreceived. Money back if not as represented. 
10 lbs, (10 gaU.) $1 and pottage 20 lbs. (20 tab.) (2 delivered 
SO lbs. (50 gals.) $4 delivered 
Trial package and booklet for 2Cc postpaid 
(25% extra in Rocky Mountain State:) 
CARBOLA 
CHEMICAL COMPANY. Inc. 
Dept. R 7 East 42nd St. 
New York City 
THE MAGIC BROODER 
The World’s Best. Self-Regulating; Efficient and Dependable 
Positively gas-proof; fire-proof and chill-proof. Rroods 
chicks at a profit. You cannot afford to own a poor 
brooder. OUR GUARANTEE:—We refund money and 
freight charges any time in 30 days if not satisfied. 
Write for free catalogue describing the greatest money¬ 
making brooder on earth, together with plans of Colony 
and Laying bouses. .Agents wanted. 
UNITED BROODER CO., 
301 Pennington Ave., TRENTON, N. J. 
Sturdy Chicks—Spry as Crickets 
QUALITY CHICKS are easy to raise 
hatched from eggs of pure strain farm-range 
stock- Book your order now — shipment any date desired 
Per 100 SO 25 
White or Black Leghorns $25.00 $12.50 $6.7 
Barred or Buff Kocks 30.00 15.00 8 25 
H.I.ltedsorWhiteWyandottes 35.00 18.00 9.50 
=ent Postpaid. Free Book. Safe arrival guaranteed within 1233 milrr 
\v. F. HILLPOT BOX 1_FRENCHTOWX, N. J. 
Baby 
Chicks 
Barron S.C.W. Leghorns 
pUREBRED, 
Strong, Livable. 
From heavy-laying 
healthy, free range 
stock. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. 
Wesley Grinnell 
Sodus, N. Y. 
CHICKS 
White Leghorn Rhode Island Red 
Black Minorca 
Increased incubator capacity enables us to fill your 
order for Pratt’s “ Superior " chicks. Three varieties 
bred for highest combination of practical qualities and 
standard requirements. Alarm—not a hatchery. Booklet' 
PRATT POULTRY EXPERIMENT FARM 
MORTON, DELAWARE CO., PA. 
Sick Baby Chicks? 
There is only one way to deal with baby chicks 
and that is to keep them well. Doctoring a hun¬ 
dred or more chicks is mighty discouraging work. 
It’s pure carelessness to lose more than 10 per 
cent of chicks, from hatching to full growth. Many 
lose 40 per cent to 60 per cent, and even more. No 
profit in that. „. . . . „ 
Our book, “Care of Baby Chicks" (free, and a 
package of Germozone is the best chick insurance. 
WITH BABY CHICKS YOU MUST PKEVENT 
SICKNESS—NOT ATTEMPT TO CURE. “I never 
Sad a sick chick all last season”—C. O. Petrain, 
Moline, Ill. • ’Not a case of white diarrhoeain threa 
years”—Ralph Wurst, Erie, Pa. “Have 800 chicks 
now 5 weeks old and not a 6ingle case of bowel 
trouble”—Mrs. Tfm. Christiana, Olive Ridge, New 
York. “Two weeks after we started last spring wa 
were a mighty discouraged pair. Every day from 
three to six chicks dead. A neighbor put us next; 
to Germozone and we are now sure if we had had it 
at the start we would not have lost a “ingle chick”—* 
5Vm. E. Shepherd, Scranton, P3. 
prnA/irAT/AMIT i3 a wonder worker for 
(jL.KiVlUZ.Ult IN chicks, chickens, pigeons, 
cats, dogs, rabbits or other pet or domestic stock. 
It is preventive as well as curative, which is ten 
times bettor. It is used most extensively for roup, 
bowel trouble, 6nuftles, gleet, canker, swelled head, 
sore head, sores, wounds, loss of fur or feathers. 
25c, 75c, $1.50 pkgs. at dealers or postpaid. 
GEO. H. LEE CO., Dept. F 50 Omaha, Neb. 
Black JERSEY GIANTS 
(The Super Hen). 
Black Feathers. Yellow Skin. Grow faster 
ami larger and lay more and larger eggs 
on less feed. Free descriptive Circular. 
Sussex Farm, R. F. D. No. 2. Belmas. N. J. 
GIBSON POULTRY-THE BIG MONEY MAKERS 
BABY CHICKS -EGGS—BREEDING STOCK 
C. W. Leghorns — R. I. Reds — B. P. Rocks — W. Wyandotte* | 
Gibson baby chicks are vigorous ami livnhle. from farm range, heavy laying (locks 
headed by males from (be flocks producing the highest scoring pens at the Inter¬ 
national laying contest. Hatching Eggs from the same matings guaranteed eighty 
per vent fertile. Gibson breeders are large, vigorous and will make your flock more 
productive and profitable. Safe arrival guaranteed. Illustrated folder free. Write 
for it now. 
C. F. GIBSON. Galen Farms, Box 1OO, CLYDE, N. Y. 
