The Eastern Poultryman, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from The Eastern Poultryman, Vol. 3: Devoted to Practical Poultry Culture, February, 1902Always feed the chicks on a clean sur face, a wooden dish made after the style we mentioned a short time ago is the best but if this is too much trouble to make simply use a planed board. Every morning before the feed is thrown out the board should be scalded and scrubbed clean, so it will be impossible for germs of disease to breed there.In regard to coops, make them large and waterproof. Some prefer to have no ¿oor at all move the coop from place to place, but when a heavy rain comes the ground under the coop becomes satu rated if not ¿ooded and if the chicks are allowed to sit on it, there is great danger of rheumatism, and leg weakness.~ For litter, sand or hay seed make good mate~ rial. Meat chopped fine or fine cut green bone is excellent for the chicks as soon as they can eat it.To make cows pay, use Sharples Cream Separators. Book Business Dairying and Cata logue 245 free. W. Chester, Pa.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.