. The Farm-poultry . o high temperature of start the brood with 100 degrees, andkeep it practically at that for the first fewweeks. We do uot like such a high temper-ature, and prefer 90 degrees to start with,and gradually dropping that amount (aboutfive degrees at a time) until the chicks areready for market, or about being weanedfrom brooder heat. That would be our planin winter or early spring. Later on in theseason we should not get over 80 degrees tostart with. Our experience has been that chicks cod-dled too much are never the strong ruggedlittle fellows that one finds in a flo
. The Farm-poultry . o high temperature of start the brood with 100 degrees, andkeep it practically at that for the first fewweeks. We do uot like such a high temper-ature, and prefer 90 degrees to start with,and gradually dropping that amount (aboutfive degrees at a time) until the chicks areready for market, or about being weanedfrom brooder heat. That would be our planin winter or early spring. Later on in theseason we should not get over 80 degrees tostart with. Our experience has been that chicks cod-dled too much are never the strong ruggedlittle fellows that one finds in a flock thatare, in a sense, compelled to rough the first week the chicks must be keptas near the brooder as possible. One cannothe too careful in this. A board placed a fewinches away from the brooder will keep thelittle ones within bounds of the brooder, andthey will not become chilled. Should theymind the cold, they can readily get backunder the hover agaiu and warm up, thesame as they do when with the hen. Xote. FIRST BLACK RED EXHIBITION GAME COCKEREL, NEW YORK, by Chas. T. Cornman, Carlisle, superbly stationed imported specimen, which Ainscough of England claims is thebest he ever sent to America. There has certainly not been a more typical one shown. Colorvery bright; head and tail fine; carriage truly gamey in the extreme.—Sewell. how carefully the hen hovers her young thefirst few days, and how she bids them returnshould they wander beyond a certain dis-tance. The same care must then be takenwith our brooder chicks if we do not wish tolose them, or give them a setback. After a week old the partition board can beplaced several feet away from the brooder, andthe little ones will readily return when theyfeel uncomfortable. At night we place thisboard within an inch or two of the outside ofthe hover, so that none of the young can byaccident get too far away and become chilled. In a climate where the winters are neververy severe, we do not believe in
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