Show EASY WORK FOR YOUNGSTERS Training and Experience Which Boys Boy and Girls Realize Is of Great All Round All Round Value Prepared by the United States State Department Depart ment meat of ot Agriculture Teaching poultry club boys and girls the rudiments of ot poultry keeping was begun by the United States department of agriculture about seven years ago ngo The average youngster takes to poultry poultry poul poul- try keeping with interest particularly when he lie is allowed to sell the surplus meat and eggs and Invest the Income in n th the savings bank or 01 In better foundation foun toun- dation elation stock for the Improvement 01 of his flock The training and ind experience which the children realize from their dally daily association with hens is of great all round all round value to them and is of spee lal ial help belp In developing a love Jove for country country country coun coun- try life and in 10 keeping rural boys and girls on the farm Whit What a l young school girl can cnn accomplish in poultry raising Is is' indicated by a n letter from a poultry club girl gill who writes I keep Barred Plymouth Rocks and single-comb single Rhode Island Reds and andIn andin andin in setting my hens I always as remove the broody hens from the laying hens M A oNy Y II 2 J 2 1 Barred Barre Plymouth th Rock Pullet and place them In some other building where they will not be disturbed I never set hens that are exceedingly heavy as they are more likely to break the eggs When the chicks come I do not feed them anything except grit and charcoal until they are re 48 hours old when I give then the either oatmeal and hard hard boiled boiled eggs chopped chopp d fine or else biscuit crumbled up with the eggs I feed in this manner for the first five or six days giving the chicks small quantities four to five times a day as these youngsters like to eat often At about the end of the first week I begin feeding small grain in the morning at midday and in the evening evening evening eve eve- ning and keep Jeep a mash made of wh wheat at bran and a little cornmeal and 10 per percent percent percent cent of ot beef beet scrap b before tore the chickens all the time This spring I hatched Red chicks and Rocks and rals raised d nearly nearly nearly near near- ly all nIl of them I sold 30 young cockerels cockerels cockerels cock cock- and have on hand chicks at present some of or them very fine pullets I have sold 59 settings of eggs this spring while during the four months from February to June I sold dozen dozen dozen doz doz- en eggs to neighbors while we used I 42 dozen on our own table During this period my Rhode Island Reds Heds laid 1070 eggs while the Barred Rocks Hocks laid eggs |