How to hatch, brood, feed and prevent chicks from dying in the shell . inly demonstrates thib to be an age of necessity. Rewards are not tobe accorded to the amount of noise we make, but to the quality of the ex-hibits; and certainly the more spirited the competition the better must bethe systems adopted, the administrative ability of the poultry raiser beingput to the test. Surely everyone will agree that the profits in any businessare greater or smaller according to the management of that business, andwe ought therefore to train ourselves to avoid all mistakes and calamitiesthat have proved
How to hatch, brood, feed and prevent chicks from dying in the shell . inly demonstrates thib to be an age of necessity. Rewards are not tobe accorded to the amount of noise we make, but to the quality of the ex-hibits; and certainly the more spirited the competition the better must bethe systems adopted, the administrative ability of the poultry raiser beingput to the test. Surely everyone will agree that the profits in any businessare greater or smaller according to the management of that business, andwe ought therefore to train ourselves to avoid all mistakes and calamitiesthat have proved disadvantagious to success. One can start now with purebred poultry so much cheaper thanthey could a few years ago, as so many have them all over the country andyou can get them by paying a few cents more per dozen for the eggs. Leghorns Not Good Setters Leghorns do not make good incubators; they are too nervous Oneshould always keep some Plymouth Rock hens to hatch their chicks, pro-vided they do not hatch by artificial incubation. CHICKS FROM DYING IN THE SHELL 29. Single Comb Brown Leghorns The acknowledged queen of the practical egg laying breeds is theBrown Leghorns when judged by the standard of the greatest number ofmarketable eggs produced at least cost. Not only are the hens persistentlayers, but they are extremely active foragers and waste no time in a good milch cow they put little fat upon their bones, but all surplusnourishment to egg production. The cost of growing them is compara-tively light; no more, perhaps, than one-half that of Brama or Cochin. 30 HOW TO HATCH, BROOD, FEED AND PREVENT
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