The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-14
The Sum mer Oh cks.

Chicks Matched during the months Of
June, July and early August are the
summer chicks that | refer to. For all
are inclined to hatch May chicks, and Il
great many people are all too apt to think
that with the close of that month the
real and profitable chick-hutching sea-
son is at an end.
1t has come to be looked upon as a
fact by very many of our foremost fam
cicrs that June and July Matched chicks
are among the foremost of showroom
winners. Every season it is their aim
to produce rs many as possible Of these
chicks, and to give them the best posi-
provided, ample shade and cool places
them free from lice and to provide them
with nourishing foods. And reared ull-
der such conditions, the summer chicks
grow right into beauty and value, and
enter the poultry arena whore they go
upon "dress parade CARRIED in their very
best Of Feather trimming and sheen.
and walk off with the lions share of
honors and premiums.
II you have been at all observing, you
who are breeders Of purc-brel varieties
of fowls that are expected to show yell
low legs nlld bay eyes, you cannot have
helped noticing tina the late-hatchcd
chicks were those that when matured.
gave you the best Of satisfaction in these
essential standard points. In the past
three years have noticed this more
particularly than ever before, and have
Nude study of the white breed of fowls
which | haillc, aid yearly closer OBJ
scrvatioh. Judges who have been en-
pldyed to come to my yards for the l,,lr-
have; without Il word of comment from
myself, remarked tht especially rich col
orings Of eyes and legs of the late
Matched birds that, when they came tin
November or early December usually,
We're yet too young to be scored.
Those late birds have. from their very
infancy, given unusual pr0niise. nnd have
developed into the handsomest specimens,
and the best Of birds in general. The
late pullets seldom enter upon a period of
real 4sefulhess until late in the spring.
and the c6ckefels are seldom sufficiently
developed to be sold rs breeders until
spring. But there are always Many calls
for breeding stock until about the 1st vi
April. And the handsomest, most vigor-
GUS and most desirable birds we have are
found among the ones that were Matched
after May.
Chicks Matched very early, say in
February, March and April. almost
lever, i'll fact, never show the rich yell
low legs when Matched that do chicks
that are Matched from esq. that are pro
auced after the season of green stuffs
has come. These aesh-colored legs grow
more XelloWT: ns the season advances,
when the chicks have, access to the ten
But the later-hatched chicks show the
dtel pretty yellow, legs from the day
they break the shell.
Many, Of the. early Matched chicks
never sHNW the RICH bay 50 much sought
il color Of eyes. The tate-h a tched chicks
ihvari ably, do. 1t is rare, indeed, to find
a ight-collored eye qlllong the SUMMER
e eto Aq fs xs is w ffv yrs @Ts TO the
late. clicks. where SIMMER Conditions
of foods are lacking the yHlk Of the egg
is Invariably Of weak, ijale color, and
ff6i1t s'lcH eggs, come the pale-colorcd
legs aid the light -cdIdred eyes. When
the farm abounds i'll Srcenpry and the
greater part of the food of the breeding
stock consists of green grasses and ten
der blades of various spring and summer
time foods. the yolk of the egg is a deep,
rich yellow in color, and the chicks com
Ing, from eggs produced under those con-
d1ti0ils skew the bright. yellow legs and
the. rich by eyes; points that 80 so far
in the milking lib Of the GENERA beauty
OF, the white ijluiiiaEed fowl.
But, tttu bef9ra Il iirftdtr Of pnrc-l,rcd
fowls: al6hf, always advocated lind
practiced the rearing of simmer chic ks.
Many contend that the summer-hatcheA
chick Is Hard IT, ralse,1 and that because
Of the SKINNER htat they ht1er do we'll.
How this might he where conditions
were all against them, l do not know.
For I'VE, have had always an abundance
of sliade fpl' ailr frwlS, both old and
young. Through the heat of the day
they have been able to seek shady. cool
places. and equally free to them has been
the privilege of seeking the sunshine
when preferred. Mother hens, with their
broods, are not kept in hot. uncomforta-
BILE coops. Large yards, where the hens
have great liberty, are used and from
these yards the chicks are free to go
where and when they please. They
never please to 90 long distances. of
course, until they are old enough that the
hens may be turned out to t So with Vi, them;
AT s fhey fe'o 70 We tafF ike a be a aa
fairly d swarih with chicks of all ages;
even Matching them later thai, August
many .times.-Nellie Hawks, in the 1'rac-
ticGl fnrinHf;