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Title: Poultry fancier
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Poultry Fancier Pub. Co.
Subjects: Poultry Periodicals
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Poultry Fancier Pub. Co.,
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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tothe season, and regular intervals arekept for feeding time. The work is ar-ranged according to a schedule as fol-lows: 7 A. M., watering and feedingscratch feed in litter, composed of crack-ed corn, whole wheat, oats and buck-wheat; 8 to 11 A. M., cleaning all houses;11 A. M., feeding whole wheat and oatsin litter; 11.30, gathering of eggs; 1.30,feeding green feed; 3.30 P. M., feed-ing scratch feed in litter, in cold weatherthe amount of corn is increased in thisfeed; 4.30 P. M., last gathering ofeggs. A feed of alfalfa is chopped fine andscalded, then put in troughs and used asgreen food. Arrangements are being made for hand-ling at least 50,000 baby chicks duringthe coming season, and the vitality ofthe stock makes it an easy matter toraise most of these—the loss being lessthan 5 per cent. Mount Pleasant Farm has started right—with healthy, vigorous stock—and byexcluding any hothouse methods is sureto attain a remarkable success as a com-mercial egg farm. POULTRY FANCIER 233
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234 POULTRY FANCIER Poultry Fancier Published under the name Fancy Fowls for 10 years,1897 to 1907. Entered as Second Class Matter, Sept 28,1907, at the Post Office at A.lentown, Pa.,under Act of March 3, 1879. Published the 1st of each month by Poultry Fancier Publishing Co. Published at Allentown, Pa. F. W. DeLancey, Editor and Mngr.Business Office, Sellersville, Pa. OUK STAFF. F. W. DeLancey, Editor and in chargeof Advertisement Department. F. D. Sutton, Managing Editor andField ^Representative. J. W. Morrow, Associate Editor andField Bepresentative. Chas. 0. DeLancey, Circulation Man-ager. E. E. McCrork, Superintendent Mechan-ical Department. John J. Eitz, Department Editor, as-sisted by a staff of able writers, menwho have made good. Subscription price in United States andpossessions 25 cents per year. Subscription price in Chicago, Canadaand foreign countries, 50 cents per year. All subscriptions are .immediately dis-continued when the time expires for whichthey have been paid R

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