Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — POULTRY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POULTRY

Get the little chicks out on the ground for a little exercise on every fair day, but be sure they do not get chilled. After chicks are ten days old they can usually be allowed to run in and out of the brooder house or brood coop whenever they like, provided the weather is fair. Do not neglect the old stock now that the chicks take up your attention, but be sure that the fowls get plenty of good feed, and have airy, healthful quarters to live in. < • • *4 Never allow chicks to run in the yard where the fowls are,, and never keep them in the same house with fowls, if you want them to be free from disease and to grow fast. x In order to grow well, chicks must have a variety of food so that they can obtain from that food the different elements needed to make bone, muscle, blood and feathers. If the fowls are kept in small yards, be sure that the yardkaye cleaned as much as possible, and if the ground is bare of grass it is a good plan to plow up the yards or scrape off the top of the ground. Every farmer should raise a large .flock of poultry this season, n,ot only because prices of poultry products will be high, but because this country and -Its allies in the war will need all the poultry and eggs that can be produced.