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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 17, 1020 
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For Land Clearing 
Just punch a hole under the stump or boulder 
you want to remove and load in it two or 
more cartridges of 
Red Cross Dynamite 
The Henyard 
Chicks that Count 
Fart I. 
Care Needed. —“Figs is pigs” is a 
phrase with ■which we are all familiar. 
Yet few farmers realize that “chicks is 
chicks” and that chicks are money. Many 
a good hatch of chicks has been “pulled 
off.” only to be lost, in part or in whole, 
by faulty brooding methods. One’s re¬ 
sponsibility has not ceased when he has 
obtained a good hatch—indeed, it has only 
begun. It. is necessary, this year espe¬ 
cially, when large poultry plants supply¬ 
ing hatching eggs and baby chicks are 
rushed with orders, to do one’s utmost to 
make every egg a chick and every chick a 
healthy, vigorous pullet or cockerel. 
Beginning Right. —Give all the chicks 
a chance from the very start by giving 
them clean, sanitary quarters, clean the 
brooder house or room where the stove or 
brooder is to be placed thoroughly, remov¬ 
ing all movable fixtures and scrubbing 
them carefully. Next, spray the house or 
room with some good commercial disin¬ 
fectant; also spray the fixtures which 
have been removed. If a coal-burnling 
colony brooder stove is to be used, set up 
the stove next and see that it is in good 
working order. Then put J /j to 1 in. 
layer of sand on the floor. Cover this 
with a thin layer of some material, as 
fine-cut Alfalfa or Alfalfa chaff. The sand 
and chaff should he used also, in the case 
of small indoor brooders, or in the small 
compartments of the hot water pipe sys¬ 
tem. Replace all movable fixtures and 
start the brooder stove. Run the stove 
at least a week hefore placing chicks un¬ 
der the hover. “An ounce of prevention 
is worth a pound of cure”—don’t wait 
until after the chicks have been placed in 
the brooder to find that your stove or 
brooder does not work properly. The 
stove must be able to maintain an even 
temperature. 
Give the Chicks a Good Start.— 
Fourth, for the noon feeding, give what 
they will clean up in 15 minutes of a 
grain ration of equal parts of fine cracked 
corn, fine cracked wheat, and steel-cut 
oats. Feed this, also, the middle of the 
afternoon and again at night. Feed this 
scratch mixture five times daily for the 
next two days, and from then on until 
the eighth day feed four time© daily. 
Fifth, beginning with the eighth day, 
feed wheat bran in small hoppers kept 
before the chicks for an hour or two for 
a couple of days, after which time, until 
the end of the week, it can be kept before 
the youngsters all the time. Feed the 
scratch feeding four times a day, omit¬ 
ting the noon feeding. Also, give some 
form of succulence, such as sprouted oats 
or beets in small amounts twice a day. 
Sixth, change the bran to the following 
dry mash and feed the scratch three times 
a day,-morning, noon and night: 
Wheat bran. 5 parts 
Ground oats . 1 part 
Cornmeal . 1 part 
Gluten meal . 1 part 
Meat scrap . 1 part 
Granulated bone. 1 part 
This change from bran to mash and 
from four to three feedings of scratch be¬ 
gins at the beginning of the third week. 
Seventh, beginning with the tenth week 
a grain ration of equal parts of cracked 
corn and whole wheat twice a day. morn¬ 
ing and night, and continue with the dry 
mash mentioned above. Maintain this 
feeding schedule until maturity. 
Heat Requirements. — When the 
chicks are put under the brooder, start 
them at about 100° and gradually reduce 
the temperature to 9S° by the end of the 
first week. This should gradually he re¬ 
duced so that by the end of the second 
week the temperature is 94°, by the end 
of the third week 90°, and by the end of 
the fourth week S5°. After the fourth 
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'A Practical Oolong House for Young fiiocJ: 
Success in brooding depends upon the 
start the chicks get, for the first two weeks 
of the brooding period are critical ones. 
Probably the greatest danger of the game 
is overfeeding. The chick needs no feed 
for at least two days after lie is hatched, 
because he has received his two days’ sup¬ 
ply of feed just before he hopped out of 
the shell. Just before batching, tbe yolk 
is drawn into the chick’s body and it is 
this which supplies nourishment for him, 
at the same time acting as a laxative to 
keep the bowels open. The chick, then, 
needs no food until the beginning of the 
twenty-third day. Let us suppose, now, 
that the hatch is completed and the chicks 
thoroughly dried off and ready to be re¬ 
moved from the incubator at the end of 
the twenty-second day (of incubation). 
IIow shall we proceed? 
Removal to Brooders. —First, remove 
the chicks to the brooder in a covered 
basket, box or incubator nursery tray, in 
the bottom of which has been placed a 
burlap bag, a doth, or some chaff’. -Place 
the chicks under the hover near the stove, 
if a coal stove is used, or under the hover 
in the brooder compartment if a small 
brooder is used. Second, sprinkle line 
chick grit on the floor of the brooding 
compartment and have a pan or water 
fountain containing sour skim-milk at 
hand where the chicks can get at it read¬ 
ily. Sweet skim-milk may be used, but 
sour is better, as the lactic acid has a 
purifying effect on the chick’s digestive 
system, serving to keep the system in 
good order and to prevent the contraction 
of bacillary white diarrhoea—a dangerous 
chick enemy. 
Feeding. —Third, give no other feed 
until the next day. at which time feed 
sparingly of crushed’ or rolled oats, i. c., 
whai they’ll clean up in 15 minutes. 
Rolled oats are fed first because they are 
easily seen by the chicks, and therefore 
Serve to attract them and get them in the 
habit of eating. In about, two hours 
give another feeding of rolled oats, as 
much as before. Feed sparingly of rolled 
oats, as too much of this sort of feed will 
become pasty and will cause constipa¬ 
tion. 
week, depending upon the weather condi¬ 
tions. the temperature may be reduced 
rapidly, until by the sixth or eighth week, 
the chicks are doing without, beat entire¬ 
ly. For a while, however, the hover 
should still be lowered at night, and it 
may even be necessary on particularly 
cold or damp days to start a fire. After 
the eighth week, the hover may gradu¬ 
ally be raised until ihe chicks are doing 
without it altogether. At this age, the 
chicks are generally transferred to the 
range, where, to a large extent, they take 
care of themselves. R. R. iianna. 
Specks in Eggs 
A Plymouth Rock hen about 2’,4 years 
old’ looks to be in splendid health and is 
a good layer. Her eggs are perfect, with 
the exception that they are full of specks, 
ranging in size from a pin point, to a 
match head. These specks are reddish 
yellow in color, and to the touch are 
harder than the surrounding white. I 
counted 47 speckc in one of her eggs. 
Would the fowl or eggs be fit for food? 
New York. J.O.C. 
There are a number of things that may 
be included witbin the egg shell—streaks 
of blood, hardened blood cuts of varying 
size, fecal matter, worms, etc. The most 
common foreign bodies are blood clots, 
and I presume that these specks that you 
notice are of that nature. There is no 
way of preventing their formation, and 
the only remedy is to candle the eggs and 
discard those showing the spots. I hey 
would not affect tIn- flesh of the lien laying 
the eggs, and there’ is no reason why that, 
should not. be eaten. The eggs' themselves 
may show this trouble only temporarily. 
M.B. D. 
Dentist: “The charge will be 10 shil¬ 
lings for extracting this tooth.” Victim. 
“But 1 thought it was only halt a 
crown?” Dentist: “Yes. but by your 
shouts and screams you frightened away 
three other patients.” — Melbourne 
Leader. 
