Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-02-27

CARE Or CHICKS IN RRooDER.
I leave chicks in the incubator until
the End day, then remove to brooder
and feed them 80 to 48 hours old. Have
brooder temperature % when I first put
them in and keep it so for three days.
then ! let it gradually go down at the
rate of about > degrees a week.
Give first feed Of bread, soaked in milk
and fed crumblv. After that l feed a
good brand of chick feed until about
three weeks old and her feed wheat and
cracked corn. Give the chicks plenty of
grit. give the little ones grit and water
before I feed them the first time. Clean
the brooders often.
nse outdoor brooders and keep chicks
shut in until three or four days old, then
fix a little yard and let them out on the
ground. ! put about Is chicks in a
brooder. This does not crowd them
when they run out. keep the brooders
in the orchard and put wire MEETINGS in
front Of them to protect chicks from
hawks and crows. As o as chicks let
large enough they roost in the trees.
FEEDING THE YOUNG CHICKS.
! never remove the chicks from incu.
ba;or until they are ~ to ~ hours old,
when they arc transferred to the brood.
ers, which have been heated and rcgulat-
ed to % degrees under the hover. The
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er is covered with coarse sand Oh the top
Of which is spread an inch of clover
chatf In this is scattered a good, pre-
pared chick food, which is their first
feed. This is given to them four or five
times a day, and they are made to scratch
for all they get. They go to work
scratching for their grain at once il not
fed until the yolk Of the egg has been
absorbed.
Fresh water, in which is dissolved a
small lump OF coppcras, is placed before
them III fountains all the time.
The temperature in the brooder is low
cred sligtly each day, decreasing about )
degrees each week. As soon as the frost
is out Of the ground, and the grass is
growing nicely, place the brooders out
side Of the houses. and sunny days allow
the chicks to run ont. On bad days
! place a piece of fresh sod in their quar-.
tiers. take ten yards Of inch mesh wire
netting, IS inches wide, and make a
temporary yard in front of the brooder,
moving brooder and yard when they
have eaten the grass well off. AT
S. weeks old the chicks are able to do
without artificial heat. Then we put
them IN brooder coops or colony houses,
where they remain until ready to bt
placed in their winter quarters.--farii
And Home.
An INDIAN PRINCESS PouTTRTwoMAH
Willie the tie Indians are defyiug the
whole l. S. Army because they do no,
want to 90 to work, an Indian princess
who lives III Washington has solved the
Indian problem % far as she is concerned
by going into business. She is Sophia
Pitchlynn, daughter Of Peter Pitch.
lynn a Choctaw Chief. The chief has
represented his people at Washington for
twenty-five years. His son and daughter
bought an incubator two years ago, and
what was little more than recreation at
first, has become an occupation of somt
T magnitude Princess Sophia not only
raises for the market, but exhibits at the
, poultry show in Madison Square Garden
|. New York. She calls her birds after
Indians Of her tribe, and princess Mus
, kosee and Princess Sequoyah" have
won prizes. The princess says cleanli'
ness, proper feeding and exercise are tn,
secrets al success in rairinS hens.
No lazy person size declares, can raise
. chickens successfully. She is up at day,
high, every morning the year round ant
y goes a, once to her coot,s. She look,
= after her pets as a motles would her FIRST
offspring, Tie food IS selected with "A,