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Show Cutting Range Costs Next to the feed cost, the greatest expense in brooding and rearing of chicks Is in labor. Any poultryman, observes a writer In the Country Gentleman, Gen-tleman, whose range Is not already so equipped can well consider installing certain practical labor-saving devices. A lot of time can be wasted carrying water in pails, so any range on which a considerable number of chicks is reared should be piped for water. Three-quarter-inch pipe for leaders one-half-inch pipe for laterals, with an automatic, self-feeding shut-off near each colony house, will more than pay for the complete cost before the season sea-son Is half over. To keep the water cool, the pipe should be laid In a furrow fur-row which has been plowed up and laid back over the pipe. Once a day the pans can be rinsed with a large bottle brush, which is all the labor required re-quired In the watering operation. In the fall the pipes can be taken up and stored till spring comes again. |