The Farm-poultry . ld with a hen. If you feed them right, the chicks entrusted tothis brooding device are hound to live and grow fromthe very start, for where can you find better con-dKions for the growth of a chick ? There is plenty ofpure air every minute of the time that they are underthe hover and no bottom heat to dry up the tissues intheir httle legs and give them leg weakness. heat is regulated to their exact needs by a pos-itive and reliable regulator. These .Udrich Farm chicks, fifty-six in number,were placed in this brooder the 9th of May 191 ! andout of the fifty-six /


The Farm-poultry . ld with a hen. If you feed them right, the chicks entrusted tothis brooding device are hound to live and grow fromthe very start, for where can you find better con-dKions for the growth of a chick ? There is plenty ofpure air every minute of the time that they are underthe hover and no bottom heat to dry up the tissues intheir httle legs and give them leg weakness. heat is regulated to their exact needs by a pos-itive and reliable regulator. These .Udrich Farm chicks, fifty-six in number,were placed in this brooder the 9th of May 191 ! andout of the fifty-six / lost only Mro—andthat by nocause of the hover, let me assure voii. At present thesesame chicks, or the pullets, are laving a sixty to eightyper cent, yield, and with the mercury down tohfteen and twenty degrees below zero for the lastthree days. Tins speaks well for the egg-laving (nialitiesol the \\ lute Orpingtons and also shows that my chickswere not stunted by incorrect brooding or badfeeding. SCOTT B. GROWING^MASH (SCALEU BAtiS)


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