The Republican journal., 1903-03-05

is pleasant these shutters are swung
wide open, giving splendid ventilation.
In cold or damp weather they are kept
shut There are no ventilators; the
whole floor is scratching shed, and
there the fowls live and thrive and lay.
@. Do you ever use trap nests? Ii SO,
what kind?
A. Have never used any, but nave
Just purchased some Ideal nests and
am going to give them a trial.
@. Are you troubled with lice OIL
vermin? If not, what do you use as
preventive?
A. Never have any lice, as | furnish
an abundant supply of coal ashes and
dry loan in which to dust. Have nc
use for lice killers.
@. | note you raise 800 chickens per
year. How do you hatch them?
A. | have used a 220-egg Star lncu-
bator for two years. 1t gives perfect
satisfaction. | also use whatever hens
may be broody at the time | wish to set
them. The per centage OF eggs hatched
varies but little whether Ill incubator Oh
under the hen. The general average is
about the same.
@. What kind of a brooder do you
use for those Matched in the incubator:
A. If you will look out of the window
YOU will see thirteen small houses, It,.
square, set Oh 3 6 joist. which serve as
runners, allowing me to move them at
will. The walls under the caves are BIT.
high. The whole building is made of
matched boards with no othercoverlng.
The roof boards are cut TT. long, which
makes the building about TT. high i'll
the center.
III the south end is large door con :
sisting of frame covered with one
inch wire mesh which can be easily re-
moved. Across the entire front inside
is a platform 3 feet. wide raised | foot.
fromthe floor. In the centre immediate
" behind this. also raised l foot, is locat-
a Champion Brooder, cost So In the
rear of the platform on one side IS an
inclined run by which the chicks can
come down on the ground floor, and in
the side of the building is little slide
door. opened and closed from the out
side by small iron rod attached To the
door.
For the first two weeks the chicks
are kept on this platform, then allowed
to 90 down on the ground floor, and
after three or four weeks old, when the
weather is suitable, the door in the
side is opened and they are allowed to
wander at will \ door in the rear per-
mits me to attend the lamp under
Brooder easily.
o. For what are the still smaller
houses | see?
A. You will note there are quite a
large number of these. They are ) IL
x 4 it. with sharp double roof, wall IN
der caves about l fit. high, the whole
made of matched boards. one SIDE OF
the roof lifts up like door and under
meath this is Slated door covering The
whole side, that also lifts, thus giving
complete access to the whole interior.
These are for the hens and their Droods
@. Are your chickens ever troubled
with little red lice, or mites:
A. They would be did | not take the
precaution to thoroughly spray the IN
teriors of brooder and house with so!u-
ton of carboic acid and Kerosene mix
ed.
@. How do you feed your chickens:
A. Quite often-several times during
the day-a little at a time:
O. What do you consider the pest
feed for them?
A. Pretty hard to state. | change
often. | use to feed them folieo oats,
but do not use them now. tommy CAKE
is excellent. Steel cut oat meal i lt,
sparlngly. fine cracked corn, mlllet
seed fine rice fed dry, are all good. l
would not use rice at regular price, put
the fine small grains can sometimes oe
purchased at . cents per pound. L
would not pay more.
@. Do you have much slch'ieSS
among your fowls? -
A. Practically none since L began
feeding white flint grit and stopped
feeding whole corn. l think large per
cent of trouble is caused by Indigestion.
O. What was the lowest and also the
highest for which you sold eggs III 1901:
And what was the net profit after pay
ing for food on 500 hens for 1901!
A. The lowest price was 16cents per
doz. The highest. 80 cents. Average,
about 81 cents. The net proflt-no
charge for labor-was 1925, or $l.O3 per
hen. | have done better than this. MY
hens did not lay as well as usual the
first of the year, and the extremely hlgh
price of feed the latter part reduced
profits.
@. If you were going to construct a
model hennery would you have the
houses isolated or a continuous one:
A. | would build one long house,
with walk in rear. Have my pens ~ IL.
square, keep 20 hens in pen, Win no
scratching sheds or yards, but with
earth floor, and large swinging windows
for ventilation as | have now arranged.
@. For how many hens could smart
man and boy care properly?
A. About 1000