The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
851 
Babying the Baby Chicks 
- (Continued from l’age 841) 
ohs growth on this diet I have just de¬ 
scribed. I am very careful about feeding 
bran, as it loosens the bowels; I some¬ 
times mix a very little with the meal after 
the chicks are two weeks old. Also I 
abandon the oatflake after three or four 
weeks and substitute ground oats mixed 
with the oornmeal. After this mixture 
is wet it needs to have some of the 
cracked corn and wheat mixed through it 
to loosen it. so it will scatter well. The 
reader will notice that this diet consists 
of corn, oats and wheat, what a farmer 
usually has or raises. It has always 
seemed a waste of money to me to buy a 
lot of stuff, the equivalent of which a 
chick will pick from the ground. I tried 
hopper feeding one year and my chicks 
did not grow nearly so even as usual, so 
I went back to the old method. 
Plenty of clean fresh water is very es¬ 
sential to the rapid growth of a chick, 
for the first few days they seem very 
thirsty. The water should be warmed 
slightly for a few days, as very cold water 
is apt to affect the bowels. I try to 
utilize what I have on hand, as far as 
possible, and .so have never had any 
drinking fountains. At first I use old 
cereal dishes for the water, with an in¬ 
verted cup. and in a few days these are 
replaced with soup plates, still using the 
cups to keep the chicks dry. When the 
chicks are about three weeks old it is 
safe to put the water in an open basin 
and they will soon learn to keep out of 
the dish. This applies to the sour milk 
dishes as well. I get five cents’ worth of 
permanganate of potash and put a small 
amount into a bottle and fill the bottle 
with water ; this make*; a solution which 
is easy to use. I add, a little of this solu¬ 
tion to the drinking water each time, 
enough to make it a light pink in color. 
If any droppings get into the water this 
disinfects it and prevents any spread of 
disease. Little chicks are mussy things 
am? T find that the water needs changing 
many times each day for the first three 
weeks, as it is very essential to keep it 
fresh. 
(frit is a very necessary thing to have 
from the first, and the chicks should have 
a good supply of coal ashes and ground or 
sifted oyster shells, and also a dish of 
sand is desirable. While they are very 
young I dig sods and put them in the 
brooder house, soil side up; this gives 
them plenty of fresh earth without getting 
chilled. As soon ns they can be let to 
rue ?.t large this is unnecessary. They 
also need plenty of green food from the 
start, and for this I use chopped dande¬ 
lions and later grass from the lawn. 
The obiect in raising chicks is to got 
pullets for early laying. To accomplish 
this it is essential to develop the pullets 
as rapidly r.s possible. This development 
i* controlled largely by atmospheric con¬ 
ditions Pullets in the Southern States 
begin_ laying earlier accordingly than in 
the North: also a larger per cent of the 
Southern eggs are fertile in the early part 
of the season than of the Northern eggs. 
This shows that warmth is very necessary 
to rapid development of the genital or¬ 
gans. A hen or chicken does not like cold 
weather. Left to herself, a hen will not 
usually hatch, in the Northern States, un¬ 
til late in the Spring. Under ordinary 
conditions the pullets of that brood will 
not begin to lay until the following 
Spring. To overcome this condition we 
try to force growth through artificial 
means, for this reason the brooder stove 
has proved a great boon to the chicken 
raiser. At first the thermometer should 
he kept at about 05°, and as the chicks 
develop their feathers it should be grad¬ 
ually dropped to 70° or 75°. Above all, 
avoid any draft on the floor. If the 
brooder house is quite sizable it is a good 
plan to partition off a part of the floor, 
on windy nights, with boards a foot wide 
or so I use some old table leaves for this 
pu noose, standing them against some 
hloi-ks of wood. This concentrates the 
heat where it is needed and thus lessens 
'•"! danger of crowding. The boards are 
nunkly removed in the morning. After 
the chicks get quite sizable and the weath- 
' la £ moderated enough to warrant let- 
mg the fire go out. there will still be 
some cold nights when I find it is well 
to start a little wood fire, just enough to 
nke oil the chill, and the chicks will grow 
Hiough faster to pay for the trouble. A 
pul et that has to stand around' pinched 
V K 1 ° 0, d > s going to retaliate for her 
<iisconi fort, wficn Fall comes, by postpon- 
iaymg season. I like to get the 
as 
mg her 
chicks roosting as soon as possible, as 
tins prevents crowding very largely; but 
warmth is the best thing for this 
purpose. ■ 
"ilrmwVf c H°k s , ar . e I’k'dy to have some 
inorr n.™ Incubator chicks seem much 
hatched 1 b(nye L trouble than those 
i!' ; ' vith Sour milk is a great 
isW^h against this - as well as fur- 
cold SLS.'V'^saiT animal food. Very 
h is better VI V y tiv affect the bowels, and 
tliev ire the chill off. even after 
usually S'* <l!U1R, ’ r stage, which is 
V in ,0Ut thm : weeks. I find they 
Who i te re it. is not so cold, 
find the , ' seems to be dumpy I try to 
Vnntv dn u ® ,,allv the little crop is 
ing crowdedI )I ’°| )a . b, y to weakness amMie- 
kecn on ha! i” U by tl "' stronger birds. I 
t hand some good reliable poultry 
tonic and mix up a pill or two of meal 
and some of the tonic and put it down the 
chick’s throat, then a little sour milk, 
and roll the chick up in a warm cloth and 
put him where he will keep warm ; after 
an hour or two I repeat the dose and 
rest again : the chick usually feels must 
better by this time, as their recuperative 
powers are great, and if I can pick up an 
angle worm, that seems to he the best 
help of oil. I take him back to the 
brooder house and it is usually the last I 
see of him individually. Little chicks, and 
big ones. too. often get chilled. In this 
case a tiny hit of cayenne added to the 
pill seems to help. The quiet rest, wrap¬ 
ped in a warm cloth away from the jostle 
of the crowd, does a great deal for a weak 
chick. Powdered charcoal in the meal, 
enough to make it quite black, once a day, 
is a wonderful crop sweetener. 
HEN WOMAN. 
Permanganate of Potash for Fowls 
Is it safe to use permanganate of pot¬ 
ash in metal vessels? How strong a mix¬ 
ture is used for young chicks? F. e. d. 
It would be destructive to the metal 
containers, but they would not render the 
solution dangerous to the animals using 
it. Earthenware vessels are best. There 
seems to be no definite rule for using per¬ 
manganate of potash in the drinking 
water, and its use has always seemed to 
me based upon entirely insufficient evi¬ 
dence of its value. One writer, in com¬ 
mending it. says that his chicks have 
never had a drink of water not containing 
it from hatching to maturity, except such 
as they got from mud puddles and similar 
sources. Attempting to disinfect the 
water iu the drinking fountains and then 
allowing th fowls access to mud puddles 
seems to me about as rational as the use 
of permanganate any way. In any 
strength iu which it will be taken by 
fowls not absolutely forced to drink it, 
it is not an active disinfectant, but merely 
a retarder of the growth of germ life, an 
antiseptic. If you wish to use it, how¬ 
ever. it is commonly advised that a suf¬ 
ficient amount of a saturated solution of 
the crystals should be added to the drink¬ 
ing water to turn the latter a rather deep 
wine red. If you are at all color blind, 
you may find yourself in difficulties here, 
but you will be safe in using as strong 
a solution of the permanganate as the 
chicks will drink; not a very strong solu¬ 
tion if they have their way. M. B. D. 
From a Montana Schoolroom 
(Continued from Page S35) 
States the supply was cut off. So there 
was nothing to do but to call on the mar¬ 
ried women (who were teachers prior to 
their marriage) to go back to their old 
work. If it was possible to leave home 
they were glad to go and earn some dol¬ 
lars in thtse days of poor crops and 
H. C. L., and give their husbands an op¬ 
portunity to enjoy their own cooking and 
company for a part of the week. I daie 
say that most of them will be most aw¬ 
fully glad when vacation comes, even if 
the pay cheek does stop. Wages are 
about 885 a month; a few schools pay 
less and others pay as high as 8100. The 
law regulating teachers’ certificates has 
been changed during the past year, taking 
the granting of certificates from the 
County Superintendent and giving it to 
the State office. We now require 12 
weeks of normal training, but this can 
be taken at Summer schools. There are 
so many lucrative positions open to girls 
those days that require no special training 
that they take these in preference to going 
to the country to teach and become the 
“neighborhood target.” M. m. 
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Chicks — 
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