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Show Building Up the Flock t;tblenj3oonr fills of Iics3' poultry panacea, mixed with sour milk to a very stiff dough and baked several hours. I would tako a small piece and pour boll-Ing boll-Ing uater over It ond as soon as It wii I WOULD not think of depending altogether on old. biddy to do tho hatching. There la a great advantage over the sltllnK hen In using tho incubator and brofttler. The Incubator Incu-bator never leaves the eggs. Is always ready, will caro for as many csgs as fifteen hens and with as little bother ns one hen. and there are no smashed and dirty e-Kgs to wa9ii and fresh nests to make. My Incubator Is 150-egg machine, hot water make, and is a very good one. I feed chiefly corn and oats, some wheat, some poultry powder and the vegetable scrari. The feed consumed was worth about SCO, which was really more than It would have been if they could have had freo range, but as we have very close neighbors I have to keep my chickens penned In a pood rart of the year to keep them out of mischief. Chickens rolsed in brooders are -as.r FLUTIUZF.D tCG OS SIXTH DA V. cared for than those with hens, as it takes a great deal less time to feed iuid water chicks In a brooder than tho same number with hens. They are much tamer and can bo guthcrcd out of a atorni more quickly than with a flighty hen. If brooders are kept thoroughly clean there Is no danger of lice, j j)ave taken e hicks hatched with hens and placed them In 4 a th 00 box containing ono part of Insect powder and two parts of sulphur, mixed well together, put the lid on the box and shaken the box back and forth till tho chicks were well covered with the powder, then placod them In a basket lined with paper, covered them carefully with some old garment and left them an hour or so. It Is surprising the number of lice there may be In the basket. AFTKU FIFTCLNrU DAY. soaked through I would squeeze it as dry as possible ond feed as much as tht-y would cat early In the morning; then in a couple of hourj xlve them wheat ground in tho coffeo mill, also parched corn ground tho sunc as tho wheat. I fed In this manner four or flv tlmcM a day for a week or ten days; then fed only three times a day. After they wcra t'Ao weeks eld I quit feeding pono and gave wholo whe.it anil coarse ground corn and oats. I kept broiler teeth (which Is crystal grit, hone and oyster shells mixed together und made fine enough for the least chicks), bran nod charcoal by, them all tho time, with just CKior.t; uatcuino. plenty of clean drinking water, and how they did grow! I sold a nico lot of them at 11 wfeks old that weighed nearly two pounds each- Mr Mary lllrsehfield, Ohio. ' " w v j 1 1 in'.- u.ioiiei, but the chicks are free and can bo placed in the brooder without fear of making it lousy. I use plcn'y of crude carbolic acid as a disinfectant, dis-infectant, rutting a teaspoonful to the gallon of drinking- water if chickens ahown uny signx of cholera. Lost year I mado pone for the little chicks. When 1 took them out of the Incubator I had the brooder nice and warm, lined with paper, and orta. a layer of chafT from the hay, ! then th:?w in a handful of fine grit for theni 1 to pick at and cave them nothing more until tho next morning. 1 then gave them pone. ! made as follows: One quart of corn end oats ground together h;ilf and half, one quart of bran, ono teaspoonful of soda and two |