June, 1912 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
months. One of the advantages of this 
plan is found in the fact that chicks raised 
in this manner are free from lice; that is, 
if they were hatched in incubators. 
When chickens to be kept for layers the 
following winter are desired, they should 
not be hatched too early, or they will molt 
in the fall. If the breeds are the Plymouth 
Rocks, the \\'yandottes, the Rhode Island 
Reds or others of about the same size, they 
may be hatched from the middle of Marcli 
to the middle of May. When the smaller 
breeds like the Leghorns, the Houdans or 
the Anconas are kept, the hatching season 
may run from the first of April to the first 
of June. 
Young chicks thrive best if they have 
fresh air in abundance, but are not allowed 
to get chilled. The more they are out in 
the open on warm, bright days the better 
for them. There is danger of too much 
heat in heated brooders. Their pens 
should be kept clean, of course, and it is 
well to have the bottoms covered with a 
litter of finely cut alfalfa or hay. The 
sweepings from a stable loft make an es¬ 
pecially good litter. Home-made fireless 
brooders are usually partially filled with 
soft hay, which is used to close the en¬ 
trance at night. 
Many people make the feeding of young 
chicks a complicated matter. Nothing is 
gained in this way, however. Oat flakes 
make an ideal food for the flrst week; or¬ 
dinary oat meal is often used. The com¬ 
mercial chick feeds are excellent and are 
sold by poultry supply houses, seed stores, 
grain dealers and often by the family 
groceryman. They may be given on a 
board until the chicks are strong and then 
scattered in the litter. Four times a day 
is often enough, and the chicks should be 
given what they will eat up clean. A pan 
of fine grit should be before them at all 
times from the flrst, and water should 
always be supplied, preferably in a foun¬ 
tain so constructed that they can not climb 
into it. 
By the time the chicks are two weeks 
old they will not require to be fed oftener 
then three times a day. Then a mash coh- 
sisting of three parts bran, one part of 
corn meal, one part of middlings and one 
part of good beef scraps may be kept be¬ 
fore them in a hopper; or a ready mixed 
growing feed may be purchased at the 
poultry supply houses. The grain in the 
litter should be continued, of course. After 
they are five weeks old, a coarser grain 
mixture may be bought or the ration 
changed to a variety of grain including 
wheat, hulled oats and cracked corn. Only 
enough to keep the chicks busy scratching 
should be given. They will go to the hop¬ 
per of mash if they do not find enough 
grain in the litter, so will not be under¬ 
fed. It is well to give bits of lettuce and 
other vegetables frequently. 
Feeding in this manner is not a hard 
task and the birds thrive. Wet mashes 
should be avoided by the amateur, but a 
constant supply of water must not be over¬ 
looked, for it is one of the secrets of suc¬ 
cess in chicken raising. E. I. F.vrrington. 
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