. The chick book. Poultry. THE CHICK BOOK 69 craze for mere "bigness!" If we will but take heed of the suggestions given us by Prof. Graham there will be a nota- ble improvement in the "type" of bird we send to market; tbg improvement in type resulting in a bettering of quality, an increased price, quicker sales and better profits to the poultrymau. I spoke of the remarkable attraction that broiler raising seemed to have for the beginners in poultry work, and to such the very great bettering of incubators, brooding and feeding comes as a great boon. The distressing fail- ur
. The chick book. Poultry. THE CHICK BOOK 69 craze for mere "bigness!" If we will but take heed of the suggestions given us by Prof. Graham there will be a nota- ble improvement in the "type" of bird we send to market; tbg improvement in type resulting in a bettering of quality, an increased price, quicker sales and better profits to the poultrymau. I spoke of the remarkable attraction that broiler raising seemed to have for the beginners in poultry work, and to such the very great bettering of incubators, brooding and feeding comes as a great boon. The distressing fail- ures, such as I have seen many of, should now be less com- mon. One such, in a pleasant town about thirty miles west of Philadelphia, is worth citing as a warning. In this case two young men trrm the city had thought to better their pecuniary condition by broiler raising. They built a hot water pipe brooder house a hundred feet long, bought five hundred eggs and went to work. A friend with whom I was making an over-night visit told me of their poor success, and suggested that we drive over in the morning and see them. When we arrived we found them contemplating an incubator full of eggs which should have hatched the day before, and from which not one chick had come. Closing the shutters (the incubators were being run in the old dampers as the temperature falls or rises from the point desired. Moreover, the hovers are not back against the walk partition, but out about three feet from it; there is no confined (dead) air under such hovers and no possibility of chicks crowding each other back against a back wall and smothering some. Of course such a brooder house costs more than a cheaply built and inadequately heated one, but it "raises the chicks," and therefore pays the added cost over and over again, instead of aiding to pass them along to the fertilizer heap. Must Be Well Hatched. Chicks to grow well must be well hatched. It is a seri- ous handicap to the baby life to
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