. The chick book. Poultry. THE CHICK BOOK 53 I keep the eggs and nest clean. When the chicks are hatch- ing I take the shells out of the nest to give the chicks room. I leave the chicks in the nest twenty-four hours to give them strength. Chicks don't need food for thirty-si.\ hours after hatch- ing. The first food is oatmeal, dry, miyed with fine grit or prepared chick feed. Give them cold water and very little at a time when young. Take the hen and chicks off the nest and put them under a good shade tree. Make a coop for hen and chicks two feet long, eighteen inches wide, twelve inches high.
. The chick book. Poultry. THE CHICK BOOK 53 I keep the eggs and nest clean. When the chicks are hatch- ing I take the shells out of the nest to give the chicks room. I leave the chicks in the nest twenty-four hours to give them strength. Chicks don't need food for thirty-si.\ hours after hatch- ing. The first food is oatmeal, dry, miyed with fine grit or prepared chick feed. Give them cold water and very little at a time when young. Take the hen and chicks off the nest and put them under a good shade tree. Make a coop for hen and chicks two feet long, eighteen inches wide, twelve inches high. Don't nail the top—leave it loose so you can look in at the chicks from the top. Make a slat coop four feet long, two and one-half feet wide and fifteen inches high to put in front of the coop. Let the hen and chicks out in the slat coop so the chicks can run around. Keep the hen in the siat coop for a week, until the chicks get strong and learn the hen's cluck. Let the hen and chicks run out over the farm to hunt bugs and other insects. The exercise makes them strong, and gives plenty of muscle. Feed June chicks by themselves. I don't have any more trouble rais- ing .June chicks than I do raising April hatched chicks. JOHN W. TANNER. difference in caring for late hatched chicks and early hatched ones is in keeping one cool and the others warm. U. R. FISHEL. PUT THE LATE HATCHED CHICKS IN A CORN- FIELD AND RAISE THE BEST COLORED BIRDS OF THE SEASON. I have often wondered why there were not more eggs Bet and chicks hatched during the month of June. To be sure it takes some precaution to successfully rear chicks hatched in the mouths of June and July, but not nearly so much trouble and expense as is needed in the months of January and February. To readers of this book who have no brooder houses I will give you my plan for successfully rearing late hatched chicks. Supposing you are aware of the fact that you must not take the chicks off the nest or out of the incubator until fu
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