New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-11-05
TEE FARMING WORLD.
OF PRACTICAL INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS
Thc Incubator Now Lively Industry-Gne OF
the Profits Of Keeping Sheep Harnesses
Should BE Made to Fit Horses
Brief Notes. Etc.
Hachine-Raisa.i Chickens.

Machine-Isaise Chickens
Ia the New York Tribune z. II.
Jacobs gives a detailed account Of the
raising OF chickens by incubators at
Hammonton. N. j. There are eighteen
establishments (seven run by women)
with total capacity Of over $4,000
chlcks every ten weeks. besides numer-
GUS smaller ones OF 200 to 400 each.
The buildings are an incubator house
lssl6 feet, of rough boards, lined in
eide with building paper. and a BROOD
or attached seventy-two feet long. for
a,A00 chickens, 100 to an apartment.
Various patent incubators are used
with success, and also a homemade
are oper: ted with hot water. Each
brooder section has '.mother''-a
table one yard SOU re on ad .ustable
legs, With II curtain about it cut in
strips. and is heated by hot-water
pipes under the floor in u pipe-box,
which supplies pure warm water.
While 50 per cent Of good eggs can
he Matched, the average is nearer 50
per cent, owing chiefly to the difficulty
OF procuring gool eggs in winter, so
THAT the cost Of chick fresh from the
shell may very from cents to 81. The
average loss in broods is about Is per
cent. The chicks are .mothered' for
swenty-iour hours, then fed rolled oats,
oatmeal, Or a cake made OF corn, oats,
bran and middlings, seasoned with
salt Small grain is given us soon as
ahey can eat it, and then the cake is
scaided instead Of baked, and the mid
>dl'ngs omitted. Mashed potato or
eurni i is allowed, but no green food,
~axceptl cabbage to pick as they grow
larger. Little meat is used. Stale
sread, broken crackers and refuse pop
Corn are used to vary the diet. At q
month old they arc fed four times {.
day; scalded mixture night and morn
ing, grain other times. Food costs 5
gents pound to produce ono pound OF
sroiler, up to three or four pounds.
Chicks are sold when they weigh
about one and one-haH pounds. Aver.
age weight is: Four weeks, ten ounces;
SIX weeks, eighteen ounces: eight
weeks one and one-half pounds. They
are sold dressed, the work being done
by ''dressers' at cents per chick.
being hled, picked. but not scalded.
Snrown in ice water then packed in
barrels and boxes, without wrapping.
frlces vary from 20 to 10 cents per
pound, selling season being December
20 June, best in April ana May.
In regard to breeds. the Leghorn
proves very desir ble both pure and
as IL cross. The chicks ara mora meatv
on the breast, and eggs from hens
matted with n Leghorn male are more
fertile. When the Brahma chicks
weigh one pound eight ounces, the
Lechorn chicks will weigh one pound
seven ounces. Crosses of game are
good. but chicks are tender; Houdan
and Langshan cross is one of the best.
Ine main points are short legs. COM
pact body, plump breasts, fat On each
side OF spine. Color OF legs is not
notced.
Cost Of outfit for 1900 chicks i,
about $1,000. The business requires
close attention and cannot be intrust
sd to hired help. It is not an easy
pursuit for women, yet several have
been very successful. Hammonton
has mild climate and a sandy soil,
and gapes are unknown It is within
reach of five or six markets. More
oroilers are said to DO raised there
than in any other place in this county
nr Europe.