Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-06-06

chicks have 30-foot run over which they
are allowed to gambol. At one side of the
house the heating facilities are stronger
than at the othe rand often during varia-
BILE weather the birds are shifted down
from the warmer pens to those having
fewer lamps. Beneath the brooder house
is the incubator house, which is IN an
earthen cellar, followed out for the pur-
pose. Besides the incubators this space
contains Oak HIS sprouting plant,
which provides the necessary green stuff
for the fowls for the year around
In addition to the regular brooder there
are several outdoor" breeders on Oak
Hill farm. These outdoor brooders, which
are large enough to care for only about
60 chicks, consist of three compartments.
The first is provided with a large kero-
sene lamp, enclosed by heavy hanging
curtains, under which the tiny fowls can
hover. when first they leave the incuba-
tor, and then there is a little space about
which they can move when not cold. The
second compartment is larger, and is
heated by the same lamp. The chicks
are moved into this when they are two
or three weeks old The third compart-
ment is a long box, made Of regular
poultry wire netting, and sitting upon
the ground. The second compartment
opens into the third so that during the
day the chicks can bask in the sunshine,
and at night move back under cover.
Mr.. Hart declares that he sells about
10000 eggs per year In addition to about
1900 chickens. That statement gives a
fair idea of the size of the White Leg
horn farm. oak Hill farm is only about
two years old, yet it embraces about
three acres of land.
Despite the fact that the farm has
been running such a short time, Mr..
Harris fowls have already taken num-
Der of prizes, and he expects a num-
Der of young birds, now on the place, to
carry on championship honors.
EARLY HATCH THE BEST.
The farm at present is running full
blast, for Mr.. Hart believes that the
early hatch" is the best
I'm this part of the country" he says
Il think that it is the best plan to start
your matches during January and Febru-
airy. When the hatch comes off the
weather is usually warm enough to prop
erly care for young chicks, and I find
that / lose no more on an early hatch
than late one. Not only do the early
chicks do well in the brOoder houses. but
I have a number of scrub hens which
l set early and then let mother bunch
of little chicks, and they do equally
as well.
"One of the principal advantages about
the early hatch is that you get more
winter eggs. BY winter, pullets,. Matched
in the early spring, are usually laying
nicely, and their product is no small
item on poultry farm"
Asked what sort of feed Is best to
produce eggs in winter, Mr.. Hart de-
clared the breeder can go by no set rule
or standard.
There are so many conditions to con-
sider," he said, that il is impossible to
give a standard feed and get certain
returns. The breeder must use horse
sense II the hens in question lay well
In spring and summer. but allow their
production to fall off during the wilmer,
1 simply try to make spring for her
Supply her with plenty of bugs and ten
der green shoots that she would get in
the spring, and then make her comfort
able in a house that is like spring
weather keep all currents of cold wind
out Of the house, and place curtains on
the exposed side in order to make the
place warmer-that usually solves the
problem.
II am a great believer in exercise es-
pecially for the young chicks That is
one of the reasons 1 have my farm in
the woods The birds are constantly
scratching in the runs for bugs and
worms and the chicks just from the
broOder house are running all about the
place scratching The exercise develops
their bone and muscles and lays a foun-
dation for a bird that will be able to
utilize all the food taken and appropri-
ate all the elements of the food to the
different parts of the body"
Asked why he decided to raise one
breed exclusively and then why he de-
cided upon White Leghorns, Mr.. Hart be-
came enthusiastic.
Il raise one breed exclusively principal
~ because 1 do not care to run the risk
of some times mixing breeds, and hav-
ing a moAgrel bird crop out here and
there. and secondly, because don't need
anything except S. c. White Leghorns.
81 believe in White Leghorns and be-
lieve they are the best all-around birds.
In the first place they are easy to care
for, cay to raise. Again there is moth
ing prettier to my eve than a solid pen
of White Leghorns. Solid colored poultry
has fewer points than poultry of other
plumage, and the color is more easily re-