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m HOME AKD FARM MAGAZINE SECTION Advice on Caring for Chicks -fARINQ for and feeding chleka la V not a difficult process when once the fundamentals -are learned. There are many different methods of cartas for and success fully raising chicks. Is fact, neatly as many as there are chick raisers. First of all. If ve wish to raise a pood percentage of the chicks Batched, we must hare healthy, rigorous chicks to start with. We cannot expect to hatch a good per centage of poor, weakly chicks. Te get those big, husky fellows we must look back and see what the parent stock was that laid the eggs from which these chicks ' hatched. Unless the parent stock Is healthy and vigorous, we cannot as pect to hatch strong, vigorous chinks, no matter what methods of incuba tion we may follow. Never use pallets as breeders, as they will not produce as strong chicks as will yearling or two-year eld hens. The proper method of feeding and housing must also be taking Into consideration. ' As for proper methods of feeding. as far ' as our experience Is oerned, we advise keeping a good dry mash before them at an times. composed of cornmeal, middlings. wheat bran, and 10 per cent meat scraps. Avoid feeding wet mashes, of you want strongly fertilised eggs. Keep a good supply of grit, shells and charcoal before them at all times. Give the breeders plenty of out door exercise, and on cold or stormy days, when confined to the house, throw their grain in six or eight Inches of goood clean litter, so they can warm up by exercising In scratching for It Plenty of good, clean water should always be within reach. I do not believe there Is any one of practical experience who would not recommend the fresh-air or open-front house. I have learned from my own experlece that fresh air methods means healthier and stronger fowls. Eggs intended for hatching par poses should be carefully handled and never, exposed to heat or cold. In selecting eggs for hatching aA Srars use those of medium sise. The extremely large ones generally pro duce cripples while the small ones produce weaklings, as a rule. As regards setting a hen, this we con sider a very simple matter and we believe everyone, or nearly every one, can set a hen an right, but a few hints may be of use to some One. Put the nest on the ground. so that the hen can easily get on and off. Put a shovel of dirt In bottom of box and then put One straw on top of this. If In winter It U weU to first line the box with paper to keep out the draughts. Sprinkle nest and hen with good lice powder to rid both of Uoe. Do not give more eggs than she can cover nicely, which Is usually from 11 te 15 eggs, depending on sise of hen and weather conditions. Provide a Anst bath for the sitting hens and teed plenty of whole corn. Dust them again about the eighteenth day with sulphur or good lice powder. '. As for running an incubator, the best advice we can give Is to fol low the manufacturer's dlrerctions to the letter. The man who makes) the Incubator knows, or ought to know, just how his machine should be run to give best results, so It Is needless for us to offer any sug gestions. But don't always blame the machine for poor hatches. First be sure you hare done your part Experience with incubators Is the best teacher. After the chicks arrive, do not be In a hurry to feed them, but give them all the water they wish to drink. Many people want to be kind to their chicks and feed them too oon after hatching. This early feeding probably causes more chick1 disorders and loss than anything we know of. After the chicks are about M hours old, we give them all the beef scraps and dry bran they can eat for the first two days and noth ing else but grit After the second day we feed them the following: two parts fine ly cracked corn, one part cracked wheat, one part mixed millet seeds. This ration Is fed until the chicks are five weeks old. After that we feed then a grain mixture of twe parts whole wheat, one part cracked com, and one part buckwheat We also have dry bran and "beef scraps la hoppers and let them have ao cess to It at an times. Green food Is absolutely necessary to keep them In condition. During the early spring, before any grass can be had, we feed Bprouted oats, which is greatly relished by both chicks and old fowls. After the chicks are old enough to sit on a roost we lot them run together and roost in one large roosting room which Is usually a part of the large laying house. At this time we feed them grain In six inches of good, clean litter and In this manner Induce exercise, which means strong, vigorous pullets. Keep the chicks and fowls free from lice, as lice are the chicks greatest enemy. Dust them at least once a week with a good powder. especially In hot weather. When the chickens are about six weeks old, cull out the least promising specimens and prepare them for market by placing them In an enclosure, slight ly darkened and feed aU the corn and buckwheat they wm eat for a week or two, not neglecting water and grit 4). W. doodling. Light Your Home with a Magic Light At Less Cost and Danger Than OilThe Under Ground System SCNSHHTH AT SIGHT ET EVERT BOOH Gas for Cooking, Let B Ten Too AU About It A Post Card Brings Pufl Information. THEDA BROS. CXX, SIS Dekmn Bldg, Portland, Oregon. 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