Show I Clicks Chicks for Victory VictoryA I A of the VIctory gardens blooming all over AmerIca IS the VIctory chicken raising program being car car- carrIed carried rIed out In thIrty five Los Angeles California elementary schools Here youngsters are grOWIng chICks In brooders as part of theIr regular school curriculum The result IS Inter Inter- interesting esting practIcal educatIonal material The chIldren raise theIr In a very busIness manner They keep account books In whIch they record what IS paId for feed and other expenses Income from dIsposal of the feathered produce IS also recorded Within a few weeks most of the students were able to dif dil differentiate between the van vani vanous ous Plymouth breeds Rock y 4 Rhode Island Red AustrIan WhIte etc Mechanically taI tal- talented taIt t youngsters construct necessary paraphernalia 1 ArtIstIc talent among the 1 young poultry raisers IS utI I an drawIng the livestock may from Me life I I rJ J w 4 i 5 x G z t n r v 2 vI f fP I Y r P s sI sf I f 1 i t I x r ti i f fI f fa I a s sits Ya l TIlls This lS is Judy one of the young chicken raisers who has her own flock of 15 hens at home She gets enough eggs to feed her own fam and occasionally sells a do don en to the neIghbors and spends her profits on ear stamps She IS pictured weighing some of her eggs Left Judy mixes her feed y composed of greens mixed grams grains and mash Be Below low Her flock hurrIedly re responds Victory spends to Judy s call of come Para de and get It K tenTh t t 44 1 f Eu Eua a oz w a 4 h W y c i s l AS ASs ASe e 4 a 4 n f r JJ It Any clucks pct Judy believes tine best nay to hatch young chicks is under an old hen Size is checking the liens lien's progress T 4 fi fit t at 1 x t 11 gr a 1 a s s x f a n nw nes w es v v vAs x As a chick struts m in cIrcle across the table these young scion trite raIsers record data on theIr how how s-how much for feed how many cockerels to raise for meat how many pullets they will save for eggs and so on Thus they learn the relatIon of arIthmetic to poultry farming Their goal us IS uc c ens like the champIon In lower Inset Maybe the little has the same Idea RaISIng of chIckens IS under the of the science departments of the schools e K KOne One brooder was made from scrap lumber and wire It IS r heated by an electric bulb As the chicks are older tempera temperature temperature ture IS reduced by using smaller bulbs bulbs A few Parmenter Red pullets x y are pictured nude Inside theIr eco t tA A z t I brooder |