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ing that the poultryman has fertile
eggs, the first thing to do is to see
that they are clean. The embryo chick
has to breathe through the porous egg
shell and if the latter is dirty the chick
is apt to die a-borning.
Care of Young Chicks Is Important
Watch Heat of Your Brooder and Keep Food From Newly
Hatched Chicks if You Want to Succeed
BY F. A. HARDING
HE care of the incubator
during the hatching
period determines the
be of a
chicks, providing the
eggs are fertile. Assum­
In a previous article the wisdom of
running the incubator for a day or
two before putting in the eggs was
pointed out. Such procedure makes
regulation of heat a much easier mat
ter.
The bulb of the thermometer should
be on a level with the top of the eggs
for the heat ~in an incubator varies
just as it does in a room. The ceiling
will be hot, while the floor is cool.
Directions accompany every incu
bator and these should be followed ex
actly as they are written. The direc
tions will tell you how often the eggs
should be turned and give other valu
able pointers.
Most poultrymen test their eggs for
fertility after the seventh day of incu
bation. Infertile eggs will show up
clear and these might well be taken
out of the incubator, hard boiled and
chopped up as feed for young chicks.
At the end of three weeks the suc
cess or failure of the hatching will be
realized. If the incubator has been
operated intelligently and there has
been a good percentage of fertile eggs,
the hatching should be excellent. If
the "jinx" has been on the job and
regulation of heat has been far from
perfect, the hatching, such as it is,
will probably consist of weakened
chicks that stand little chance of life
in the struggle for existence.
DONT GIVE HEN TOO
MANY CHICKS TO COVER
The hen is the natural brooder, of
course, but many poultrymen make
the mistake of giving a hen too many
chicks to mother. In any event, the
hen will not admit incubator chicks
to her family unless she has hatched
some of her own at the same time.
With 200 young chicks on his hands,
however, the poultryman is fortunate
who has enough hens to mother the
entire lot.
The manufactured brooder is a real
ly necessary adjunct to the incubator.
Good ones are on the market, or it is
comparatively easy to make one your
self. Practically the only problem
concerned in the manufacture of a
home-made brooder is the matter of
heat regulation. Solve this difficulty,
afford plenty of room for the chicks,
and your brooder troubles are over.
The chicks generate considerable
animal heat and it is easy to deter
mine if the temperature in the brooHer
is either too hot or cold. If too hot the
chicks will spread out on the floor as
.far apart from each other as space
will permit and you will notice their
labored breathing. When cold, the
chicks huddle together, making the
most of the heat generated by their
own bodies.
Poultrymen are agreed that the
young chicks should not be fed within
24 hours after hatching. Nature has
provided subsistence for the newly
hatched chicks and any attempt to lure
them into eating ahead of time is apt
to result in stomach trouble and death.
The proper feeding of young chicks
is a big subject, and I will not attempt
to go into it here. In another article
I shall attempt to give the views of
men who have been successful in rais
ing incubator chicks. Every poultry
man is agreed that it is easier to hatch
'em than it is to make 'em live.
COST OF RAISING HEIFERS
The importance of providing cheap
feed for growing heifers and practic
ing thorough culling is brought out by
the results of feeding experiments re
cently completed by the dairy division,
United States department of agricul
ture. In these experiments groups of
calves were fed from birth to one
year and two years of age and a rec
ord kept of all feed consumed.
In one experiment, 11 heifer calves
were raised to the age of one year.
The amount of feed consumed by each
calf was as follows: Hay, 571.8
pounds grain, 885.5 pounds silage,
3,693.1 pounds milk, 110 pounds skim
milk, 2,414 pounds. Estimating the
hay at $30 per ton, grain at $60, and
si/age at $8 per ton, milk at 4 cents
and skim milk at three-fourths of a
cent per pound, the cost of raising
each heifer to one year of age was
$72.42.
Five of the calves from the first ex
periment were then fed for one more
year. During this second year each
calf consumed on the average 1,117.8
pounds of hay 1,221.6 pounds of
grain 8,031 pounds of silage. Using
the same figures for computing the
cost of the feeds consumed during this
second year, the total cost of raising
a heifer from birth until two years of
age was $157.96. These figures em
phasize the necessity of providing
cheap feed for heifers, such as pasture
and silage, and bring out the impor
tance of carefully culling the heifers
to avoid raising those which will prove
to -be inferior cows.
UTILIZING SEA WEED
Kelp, apparently, is going to be a
profitable source of potash, an impor
tant fertilizer ingredient that the
United States formerly obtained al
most wholly from Germany.
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During the war an experimental
kelp-potash plant was established by
the United States, department of agri
culture' at Summerland, Cal. Before
the second year of operation was com
pleted it had been determined not only
that the plant could be made self-sus
taining, on the basis of potash alone,
at $2.50 a unit, but that a number of
valuable by-products could be profit
ably obtained. The chief of the bureau
of soils, which operates the enterprise,
estimates that if the plant turns out
$300 worth of potassium chloride a
day it may at the same time turn out
$269 worth a day of the four principal
by-products.
Among the by-products whose com
mercial obtainability has been estab
lished Are iodine, common salt, am
monia and bleaching carbon.
FAMILY LIVING COST
An average American family of five
pAsons requires $2,244 a year to sus
tain it in health and reasonable com
fort at present prices, acording to in
vestigations of Professor W. G. Og
burn of Columbia university. The
budget provides $768.60 for food
clothing for man, $146.81 for woman,
$130.92 for three children, $177.53
rent, $216 fuel and light, $70 mis
cellaneous, $576.50.
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