The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-18
The Security of Division.

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 The Security of Division.
 F. B. Geer in Southern Cultvator.
 It Is a common mistake on the farm In keeping fowls and in raising the young stock. to have but the one gen. eral collection, or flock, without any does not do SO. neither does the sue cessful market poultrymaii, and 1t is our opinion that no one can attain . very great success. or obtain ,asatbsr mpen In large flock, and neither can one raise spring chickens and later sum mer chickens in the same flock, with cess.
 There must be a division to insure health and growth in young stock. eo6doh ed if seeR we the sH ne1' bR M ys duce the dangers of disease among the hens to minimum. Tn the nrst we may have a series of small collec- tions, propery divided on the same premises. without increasing. the iia- lzes it. for If one flock takes disease snelosures. or colonised on n a dIffer- tirelxs exempt Grorp- the possibility of taking 1t also. This is the system under which the fancfer operates. It. Is our plan. and has ever been so. Our fowls are divided in lots of twelve to fifteen. each flock in a separate yard, and hence there is never an epidemic of the whole. Our fowls die only from individual ailments that do not infect the general flock. or series of small focks
 Tn raising the young this system Is n may successfuily raise Chickens every month in the year, if we will so ar- range 1t ss to individualize each sepa- rate brood. Where. there Is no crowd matched by neither the old nor. young stock. or the adult fowls on the place. there will be health, thrift and rapid that fencing costs something. But there must be some capital expended in the forration of every successful The man nan S Wso nas staak and also number of fenced-in, roomy yards .or paddocks for his growing stock. so as to keep both old and young in small fiocks, has the key to success inpoltry culture. Take a yard a hun dred feet long and fifty feet wide with sub-pen ten feet square at each end each for a hen and brood, and you have an ideal place in which to grow and de- velop fifty young chickens without Let the hens be confined to the sub pens. and the chickens range the pad dock. and there will be- rapid growth and development with only a mini mum of unfavorable conditions. Have two ,threa. six. a dozen or twopty-f five such paddocks. and you may safely multiply your young stock as many times with assurance of success, no matter how old one flock or the other may be. But eliminate the separation feature. Let the chickens all run in one big scrambling mob, and you then
 Indeed, there is a security in divl- sion. It is the key note of success and it must be practioad if we would have a minimum of sickness and loss in our fiocks. and a maximum of vigor and early development
 Let us follow this plan in the man agement of our late matched stock, and as our young chickens come from the nest these summer months, let us not set coop out in the general run way so that the tender little chickens may be buffeted about by everything rather place the coop in a small pen in a quiet spot. so that we may keep the hen apart from the other chick ems, and also that the little chickens may be with her entirely at first and have something of a run of their own about. And then, next spring. let Nls have our run-ways up and ready be- fore any chickens come from the nest It only takes thought and action and preparedness to make a success of anything where there Is later senergy eggs and there Is money in chickens for market. and we may have 1t from either system if we will divide and sub-divide our stock. both old and young.
 Nashville. Tenn.