Newark post., 1910-05-04
Poultry Department
Conducted by W. G. ANTHONY
SMYRNA. Lei.

chicks hatched during March and
the first half of April, and there
are few things we want to bear
in mind.
Under artificial methods as soon
as chick is feathered it needs
no further heat aside from that
furnished by its own body, and is
ready to be placed in colony
house. If the old hen has been
doing the brooding she does the
colony making herself simply by
weaving and going back to her
kind.
Forty or fifty chicks make a
practical family to live together.
A house six feet long, three feet
wide, three feet high in front and
two feet high in the back will fur
nish sleeping quarters for forty
"Rocks" or fifty "Leghorns" un-
til marketing time or until they
should be placed in laying quar-
ters, If the owner expects to keep
them.
Never mix sizes or sexes in col
onizing. Never mix big ones and
little ones; If you do, you may
expect the big ones to stay big
and the little ones little. Make
your plans so that the range to be
used by the pullets is separate
from that to be used by the cock
erels. Your results will be better.
The following is the writer's
method of colonizing:
One hour before sundown the
chicks. from which those to be
put on the range are to be select
ed, are driven into their pens in
the brooder house. OF those
completely feathered, forty are
caught and placed in the little
house-the colony house men
toned above. This is done as
quietly as possible. These chicks
sleep in their new home tonight
well say; they are fed there to-
morrow. Two nights and one day
they are confined, then they may
be let out to run about the house
which has been surrounded by {
low fence of one inch mesh poul
fry wire. Fifty feet OF this wire
is used, making a yard about L
feet square. The fence is KEEP
about the house conhning tin
chicks for one week after that i
Lay be put around another house
It may be well to look after TIL
Youngsters the first evening ate
they have been let out to see tlla
they go to bed properly, but atte
that they will take care OF them
selves, and even should there be
thousand of them on single acr
very rarely they ever go to bed |
any house but their own. Civ
them shade and plenty OF fres
water-both are needed. Be sur
there are no leaks IN the roofs {
the houses. The rape you sowe
the first of April should be maxim
the ground look green. Try t
work and think a week or tw
ahead, it will save YOU lots of fr'
and work.; not only that, 70
wonn't have to mop that brow S
much at some time when it daw1
on YOU that there are a millio
things that ought to be done, an
you've only got about twenty mil
utes to do it i'll.
Some one wants to know:
1. How to feed hens that al
supposed to hold down nest fl
of eggs for three weeks.
Ans. ! Give them plenty of cor
mot on the cob water, grit, cha
coal, and good place to dust III.
?. I'm trying to feed Gle;
wheat bran in hoppers, but it fai
to run down as the fowls eat
out from the bottom Of the ho
per. Is there anything | can dc
Ans. ?. Mix a little fine grit
clean coarse sand with the bra
this will right it and cause it
feed" down as the fowls consun
it. Be sure that the bran, the sal
and the hopper are perfectly DIR
3. The steam cars run close
my home. Do you think the j
from passing trains would inte
fere with my using an incubat
in my cellar and getting good I
suits?
Ans. g. No!