NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
15 
Sony Bacdow & 
SALEM, MASS. 
Phone 1290 
GED Cae I Eke < 
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Chicken Farm at Manchester Pri= 
vate Estate. 
Over half a thousand perfectly white 
chicks varying in age from one day to 
twelve weeks isarather uncommon sight 
in Manchester, yet this is what met the 
writer's gaze a few days ago when on 
invitation of the caretaker, Fred. Brasch, 
he was taken over the hennery at ‘‘Eagle- 
head,’’ the beautiful summer home of 
the late Senator McMillan. 
The past winter, as every hen fancier 
knows, has been an abnormally bad one 
_ inraising chickens. Mr. Brasch has met 
_ the average success, perhaps, but of those 
hatched he has been particularly fortunate 
in handling for he has saved 95 percent, 
which, from the hen man’s standpoint, is 
considered great success. 
All the chickens are white wyandottes, 
and a finer looking lot it would be hard 
to find anywhere. The chicks are all 
raised by incubators, the first hatch com- 
ing out about three months ago. 
In the first brooder house, where the 
little chickens are first taken after hatching, 
there are six pens and in these were little 
chickens, one lot four days old, another 
one week and so on up to five weeks old. 
There were as many as 70 in some of 
the pens. ‘The brooder house is heated 
by hot water system of piping. 
In the next brooder house, which was 
not heated, were six more pens and in 
these were chickens varying in age from 
six weeks to three months. 
Hen raising is not done at ‘“Eagle- 
head’’ as a commercial business, but it is 
carried on a sufficient scale to cope with 
the needs of the family who will arrive 
here from Washington and Detroit in 
June. At an ordinary dinner party some 
20 or 25 chickens are served in some 
form or other, either as soft roasters, 
broilers, squab broilers, etc. 
Mr. Brasch started in January and will 
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stop about the middle of May. 
two incubators, each of which hold 250 
egos. It takes 21 days to hatch. Last 
year where he got an average of from 130 
to 180 a setting, he has hatched only 75 
to 90 this year, but he has saved most all 
of those he did have hatched. 
Nor are chickens the only things raised 
t ‘“Eaglehead.’’ There are some ducks 
and a collection of beautiful silver and 
golden pheasants, with most gorgeous 
plumage. ‘There are angora goats, and 
on another part of the extensive grounds 
may be seen some deer. 
Letters remaining unclaimed at Manchester, 
Mass., P. O. for week ending April 20: 
W B Coit, Thos W Coolidge jr, M A Cheem, 
Miss Annie Cronin, Mrs J] T Coffey, T B 
Cunnet, Mrs Medora W Elliott, Mr Ferdy, 
Richard C Fowler, Wm R Holmes, Mrs E K 
Holmes, Miss Minnie Lane, J Lovering, S S 
Mum, Mrs E W Mithing, Mrs George D Put- 
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