Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-03-12

Food should he withheld from them for
the first 40 hours. After that they may
be fed small grains several times n day.
Any hi~H-srade scratch food should give
results. especially those that do not con-
tain more than 30 per cent. corn.
When the chicks are three days Old.
dry bran may be placed i'm small troughs
that they may eat from whenever they
wish. When they are five days old, mid
dlings, good ground oats mealed alfalfa
and clean. high-grade beef scraps can
be added to the bran in the following
proportions; 100 pounds of bran, %
pounds of mddlinss, 80 pounds of ground
oats, 80 pounds Of mealed alfalfa and
not over 10 to 10 per cent. of beef scrap.
This makes a good dry mash to feed
them from the fifth or sixth day until
they are ready for the laying house at
from five to six months Of age. Char
coal, grit and oyster shells can be placed
in hoppers so that the growing chicks
can obtain it as they wish Clean, fresh
water is an essential that is often over
looked.
Green food in some form is another
thing that the average poultry raiser
often does not think of sufficient i'm
pOrtance, and yet it is one of the es-
sentials that cannot be neglected if the
best results are to be obtained. It aids
Digestion and assimilat ton and keeps the
chicks in good condition. 1t can he fed
in the form of sprouted oats, cabbage
beets or lawn cuttings or from the clover
fields OF course when the chicks have
IA chance nj pi "a
colony house or grass in the brooder
runs, they need no more.
But most poultry raisers, especially
those with back lots in or near the city,
do not enjoy these advantages, but are
compelled to buy green feed.
AS the chicks grow older, separate the
cockerels from pullets using for the
family or market all the males not in
tended for future breeders. In separat-
ing the sexes, one will find that they at
tain a better growth and prove more
profitable
BE always on the watch for lice for
one cannot grow good poultry and "A crop
Of lice at the same time, and no matter
how new the buildings in which the fowls
are kept lice viii gain a foothold If not
kept in check. Sparrows, the poultry
raiser's worst enemy, are carriers of lice
ana disease, and in this country they are
ever present
IS the chick. row into maturity, one
will always find few that, even at their
fun growth, will not be up TO the rest
of the flock in size, and in many cases
in vigor, Dispose of these; do not keep
them in the hope that, by heavy feeding,
you will enable them to catch up with
the rest of the flock. They are the weak
lings and will prove to be the droncs,
and, if kept, will pull the average of the
flock back In both egg production and
profit
The winter egg producers are the pull
let's that are properly grown from good
healthy stock. Among beginners these
will always be more successful with the
man who has a few than one who starts
with a large number of chicks. The
former Is able, because there are but n
few, to give them good care, to see that
they are not overcrowded and that they
| obtain plenty of house room ANA good
ventilation
Overcrowding-th lack of close Gull
| ing-has caused much loss in profits
among the beginners In poultry. Clean
| brOoders, absence Of overcrowdlng, no
| lice, plenty of green feed, the feeding
of milk in any form, cleanliness Of
drinking vessels, the separation Of sexes
as soon as possible. close culling of all
understood specimens. the feeding of one
system-not changing froHa DAY to day