Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-06-20

/ chuck food, but again they have to
scratch for IT. At they get mash like
that fed them at 10 a. m, and at $50
D. m they get some more chick food,
and again they have to scratch for their
supper.
/ When the birds are six weeks old their
first regular meal comes at 10 a. m, when
they get a mash, which consists of la
ground oats, 1-3 wheat, 1-S corn meal, a
half of the whole of alfalfa added, and
served we'll dampened with milk. A
dash of salt is thrown over this. AT
noon chicks of this age get Whole oats,
which have been soaked in water since
morning. At 4 p. m. they get the same
mash served at 10 a. m, and at night
they are given cracked corn before
roosting.
The diet described above was CLEANED
by Mr. Freligh from the articles of sew
eral poultry experts and then submit
ted by him to experienced local poultry
men. and they gave it their Endorsement,
before it was tried on the birds.
Mr.. Freligh believes that every poul-
trymen should start his farm with hatch
ings of eggs.
MR.. FRELIGH TALKS.
'In the first place." he says, ut is
much cheaper. You eventually have to
buy incubators, brooders, etc, and you
might as well start with them. To get
birds from some established strain you
have to pay pretty stiff price, and no
man who has studied the subject thinks
for an instant that 1t is true economy
to start from poor stock. Under my
system you simply start off with eggs
from an excellent strain and they can
be purchased several hundred per cent
cheaper than you could get old biris of
as good strain
There is a big saving right there in
the start. The only drawback is the
time necessary before your egg produc-
ton begins, but even at that it is only
question of a few months, and at the
end OF that time man who started out
with a few hatchings will have a num-
Der of pullets producing several thou
sand eggs per week with a minimum in
vestment, while the man who started
with q flock of grown birds is getting the
same result at q maximum investment.
while 1t is true that you have lost a
few months, believe that a man start
ing a farm like I have, will begin to
make profit long before the man who
started farm of the same size with
grown birds"
That there is something in what the
young breeder says can be noted by a
glance at the flock of 1000 little White
Leghorns. without a chicken more than
eight weeks old on the place. 1t is the
result Of the minimum investment. Dur
ing the course of the next few weeks
the 400 cockerels will be sold off at
the excellent price which broilers are
now bringing, and then in a few months
Mr.. Frengh will have 500 hens bringing
in almost as many eggs each day.
LoRING BROWN APPROVED.
Loring Brown, who has been the
young breeders guide and instructor in
the poultry game, visited the place
shortly before a reporter was out there,
and this chicken authority was delight
ed with the accomplishment. "It just
shows" he said, how easy it is to
make a success of the business If a
person goes at it right"
Mr.. Frelighs place has not been COM
pleted yet. He increases the facilities
of the place as the fowls grow to need
them. The establishment consists OF
the three all important incubators;
three outdoor oil heated breeders for
very young chicks, four larger brood
ers. not heated, for the larger chicks,
and then the colony house. which shell
ters the birds until they are ready for
the laying house The houses were all
constructed by Mr.. Freligh, who follow
ed the advice of Mr.. Brown. and all are
models. The heated breeders are of a