
H. F. Chicks & Hybrid 
‘Dear Mr. Field: Our daughter Jean 
feeding some of your Mule Hybrid No. 
129 to our Hampshire Red Pullets which 
we purchased from you. These pullets 
started to lay at 414 months.’’—Mrs. J. 
C. Niewoehner, Ft. Madison, Iowa. 
Everything Fine 
“Dear Mr. Field: 
like it. I mean the 
I never: saw anything 
500 baby chicks. They 
are wonderful—such a bargain. Two were 
dead when they came and we lost three. My 
friends and neighbors were amazed and can 
hardly believe it—we are so happy about 
the deal. We just recently went to farm- 
ing and everything we have gotten from you 
has been grand. Thanks a lot!’—Mrs. Zola 
Sample, Manntford, Oklahoma. 
Shoeing Wild Colt 
“Dear Mr. Field: This is a picture of 
our daddy and 2 of our uncles with a lit- 
tle wild mule colt. We thought it would 
be funny to show daddy his picture in 
Seed Sense. We are 10 and 12 years old.” 
—Clyde and Clayton Hefley, Mt. Judea, 
Arkansas. 
Well, here it is. 
what he said. 
Write and tell me 
HLF. 



is HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE FOR AUGUST, 1945—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Towa 
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THE 10 COMMANDMENTS = 
OF CHICKEN RAISING | 

1 
BE SURE AND BUY YOUR CHICKS 
BARLY. Get in ahead of the rush and 
see to it that you have just the breed and 
quantity wanted at the time you can han- 
dle them to best advantage and-profit. 
ioe 
GET YOUR BROODER HOUSE READY 
AHEAD OF TIME. Before your chicks 
arrive, be sure to clean, scrub, and move 
the brooder house to a new location. A 
good disinfectant can be made by using 
one can of LYE to ten gallons of hot wa- 
ter. Handle lye carefully. 
III. 
‘ALLOW PLENTY OF BROODER 
SPACE PER CHICK. Best results can be 
had by allowing 300 chicks for a 500 
chick capacity brooder “stove—500 for a 
1,000 chick stove. Start your brooder 
with a temperature of 90 degrees for the 
first week, reducing the temperatures 5 
degrees each week until it levels off at 70 
degrees. 
IV. 
FEED, AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR 
CHICKS CAREFULLY. Start chicks on a 
good commercial starter as a complete 
feed. At three weeks, use fine scratch 
grain along with the starting mash. At 
the same age, hand feed chick size erit 
along with the scratch grain. At the sey- 
enth week, feed a half and half mixture 
of starting and growing mash. By eighth 
week, feed growing mash only. 
Vv. 
FEED A COMPLETE, WELL BAL- 
ANCED, WHOLESOME RATION. Here is 
a good formula if you mix your own feed: 
30 lbs. ground yellow corn; 15 lbs. Bran; 
30 lbs. Shorts; 12 lbs. Meat Scraps or 
Never Better Chicks 
‘Mear Mr. Field: 
from you this spring are fine. 
chicks do as well as these have.” 
lie Eckles, Fillmore, Missouri. 
Liked New Hawkeyes 
“Gentlemen: I want to tell you how well 
the 25 Hawkeye chicks did that I received 
Feb. 14th. I killed two of them April 14th, 
one weighed 214 Ibs., the ether 2% Ibs. I 
never had chicks grow any faster.”—Mrs. 
Kred D. Miles, Hill City, Kansas, 

Never had 
—Mrs, Lil- 

Sinai Stuff 
‘Dear Mr. Field: These are two sons 
and their Hereford cattle. Harvey, 9 yrs. 
old, sold his calf for $250 at weaning. 
time. Garey, 7 yrs. old, sold his for $125. 
They both. have a garden. We are well 
pleased with your seeds.”—Mrs. Law- 
rence Enteminger, Rt. 1, Preston, Minne- 
sota. 

The chicks I ordered 

































Bone Meal; 10 Ibs. ground Onis: 5 Ibs. 
good commercial Mineral; 5 Ibs. Soy Bean | 
Meal; 1 lb. Salt. (Grain ‘Sorghums (Fet- — 
erita & Hegari) can be used in place of 
corn. ) 

VES 
LET CHICKS OUTDOORS AS SOON 
AS WEATHER PERMITS: Direct sun- 
light does much to help faster growth. 
Get those chicks out at least on normal 
days, weather permitting, as early as pos- 
sible. 
VII. 
RAISE YOUNG CHICKS AWAY FROM 
OLD FLOCK. Keep your brooder house 
on fresh, clean soil by all means, as far: 
away as convenient from last year’s birds. si 2 
It pays big dividends. aie ae 
VIII. : 
SEPARATE THE COCKERELS FROM _ 
THE PULLETS BARLY. Pullets do much — 
better if you remove the cockerels as soon 
as you can tell the difference in sex. If © 
you caponize, do the operation when the 
average weight of your cockerels is Re F 
pounds. 
x 
ALLOW PLENTY OF ROOSTING ae) 
SPACE. Don’t make the mistake of 
crowding the birds. Allow eight inches — 
of roosting space for light breeds, ten _ 
inches for heavy breeds. Roost poles 
should be 14 to 16 inches apart depending mas 
on breed. ; ~ 
X. mies 
.~HOUSEB THE PULLETS WHEN THEY 
BEGIN TO LAY. It’s best to have the © 
pullets housed at least by October 1st in | 
the fall. Provide one nest for each seven 
hens. Arrange the hen house windows so — 
they can be opened at the top. This 
keeps the air fresh and also Drevont 
drafts. 
Vigorous Growing ei 
pein Scrat Ret ebm eee Oe eel 
“Denar Mr. Field: I ordered one hundred 
sexed pullets from you in the early spring 
and they are sure pretty now. I sure do 
like your chicks. They are so healthy and © 
visorems cane. Florence Lehn Blue, Okla- — 
oma, 
A Girl and Her Chickens _ 
This is little Virginia Marie, grand- 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wallace 
of Beardstown, Dllinois. She likes to feed 
the H. F. chickens, too. Looks like a 
flock of my white rocks. ~~ 


