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HOME 'AND FAEM MAGAZINE SECTION Value of Hatched Chicks By Q. L. Wood. (Special to Farm Magaxine.) EXHIBITION season has arrived for tho poultTyman. This and the succeeding three months will demonstrate the quality of fowl that has been produced during the spring and summer months. The poultry ex hibits at tho early fairs so far have brought out an average display with a noticeable shortage of early birds. Thore are a few breeders who con tinue to carrv away most of the bine ribbons at the early shows with Feb ruary and March hatched chicks. Siie is the one big factor that wins in the fall, all other points being eompara tivelv enual. The quality of these earlv shows can be greatly improved with tho bulk of the exhibitors laying their plans in the winter for the full size birds in tho the early fall. There is so much disappointment, especially among exhibitors with limited experi ence, in showing birds a month or two before they have reached full develop ment. It is true that it requires in many cases a latter chick to win at the winter shows than the ones that will pull down the blue in the fall. The cockrels might go a little coarse, and a pullet that has been laying two or thmn months will not bo in as good ' Bhow condition as the one that is just ready to lay bjer first egg. There Should be some difference between the time planned for development in the larger and smaller breeds. The Leg horns and other breeds in the Medi terian class develop more rapidly than the Wyandottes, Beds and Bocks, and do not need to be gotten out quite to early. There is little to fear in Taking the early hatched chick. The thought of getting out a January or February chick on the Coast while the rainy season is still on and the winter seems Still in full swing throws a horror into the breeder who has never tried it. The fear is unfounded, however. The if raised in dry coops, with a sheltered run, and allowed to get out on the grass alter a mora, old, at least a portion of the middle day, will outdo the April and May ehick in growth, vigor and vitality nine times out of ten. Such chicks get tErough the early stages practically free from the ravages of body lice, .;i noorlv all of the eerm diseases to which poultry is subject, come in the warmer months. Under favorable grow ing conditions tho early chick is more profitable from every standpoint. With the exhibition value out of the ques tion, the February broilers can be sold while the market is at its best, and the minimum chick loss in develop ment in raising these broilers places the average profit per hatched chick as high as 50 per cent The April hatched Wyandotte or iteo. will make the best winter layer. These will not have reached a sufficient de- vnlnnmenl to have laid a few eggn and moulted before the winter Beason catches them. The early chick that moults before December and tho late nnA that does not lav before Decem ber 1st, as a rule, will not pay their keep in eggs during the winter, mis roll np the profits for the breeder, is the season when the layers help and tho poultry business is not much unliko any other business in the ro spect that not one single item of possible profit must be overlooked if the business is to succeed. mi, rmnt nnT hen DOT dav whore green fnA ; TiTncnTahla. If clover, alfalfa or similar green feed is not obtainable, double the quantity ol sproutca oau. The best way to sprout oats or othsr grain is to soak foT 12 hours, drain in a perforated box, sprinkle and stir night and morning until they begin to sprout, thon stop stirring and spread in a layer an inch thick- At end of a fortnight they will have formed a mat nearly three iuches thick and have sprouts an men lond. Youns chicks 6hould have some of these sprouts rubbed off and fed to thorn. Each nall-dozon laying Wns should have about three square inches of this mat, if also fed clover or alfalfa. WliatBVpr the feed, do not ncclcct pure water. One hundred birds need one ounce of salt cactt day. Hatching Chicks By Electricity HOTEL ACKLY Cor. 12th and Start St, r"1. S, RATKS: JS.50 per week up. JM? bath, $4.60 V CI.KAN OUTSTDB BOOMS. MODERN BRICK BUILDUP Hotel Clifford East Morrison and Sixth Streets. Modem In .very detail. Bert ol Rate, by week from $3 up, by day SO and op. See the Clifford before goto ,lwr where. , . ED. T. EEEvES, rropnewi. Princess Hotel Saat Third ana Bumalde Street! POULTRY RAISEKB may iook ror ward to lessening their dutios by utilizing electricity as electrically heated incubators and hovers are now on the market. Where oil-heated chick, en hatching apparatus had to be con tinually inspected to see that the oil supply had not become exhausted or tho winarahis was not on fire, the electrically heated devices may be left unattended except to transfer the new ly hatched chickens from the incuba tors to the hovers. The Electrical World describes an electric incubator and hover. The case is built of 2-inch cork boards rein forced with steel corners. The top is entirely covered with steel, and the base on which the egg tray stands is made of well-seasoned cypress eovered with a thick felt pad. The egg tray is of galvanized steel and has a re movable wire mat on which the eggs repose. A hole in the center allows the chicks when hatehed to fall into a wire basket hung on runners under the egg tray. Air is filtered through ; b fnlt-nad base. A ventilat- r,Vi BTtendinB throuen tne roui and attached to tho cover leads down th.rn.itli h hole in the ess tray into ti. ...rorv i-hambcr. The amount of air is varied by means oi a aiming cap on the tube. j Tb. front of the case is provided with a small glass window to show the interior and allow the tnermomeicr to bo read. The beating units are contained in the roof and slip into spring clips, making them interchange, able and removable. These units are of the cartridge type and are so ar ranged that the "heat is equally dis tributed over all parts of tho ogg tray. The supply of heat is auto t:oii pnntTnlled bv means of a thermostat. A signal lamp indicates when tho heating circuit has been opened. The hover has a roof made of cork board covered with sheet stoelj the sides are closed by heavy douoie can- . . . -il. I..., nf (15. vas duck curtains wim v- - inch felt in between and above tne slits. An automatic heating system simUar to that employed in the incu bator is used, the beating coils being placed just beneath the roof and en closed with heavy wire screen. j PACITia KOETHWEST FAIRS. 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WHEN IN POETLAND stop at the incomparable Hotel Benson CENTRAL, FIREPROOF, MODERN, LOW RATES Send for free book. Cad Stanley. Mgr. Variety of Food EXPERIENCED poultry raisers vary in their preferences for tho food they give and it will De gooa practice for everyone not to stick to any fixed ideas but cliango rations ao-i-nrdimrlv as common sense may dictate. Variety will be appreciated by birds as well as by other animals, iry tne ioi lowing for a change: Where wheat is the most readily procured grain, this mash is an unusually good one ior growing Btock and layers: Ton parts each of oats, boiled potatoes and skia milk; 20 parts of alfalfa or clover, five parts each of bran, cracked corn, grounds oats and wheat middlings; two parts meat Bcrap. This is 1:4. 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