Mash Fed in Afternoon
During the Summer months, when the birds are on Range, they are fed their mash and grain ration between the hours of two and three in the afternoon.
Throughout the year nothing whatever is allowed to interfere with the Schedule, and, if one would succeed with poultry a rigid adherence to regularity is most necessary.
CHAPTER XVIII
Incubation on the Corning Egg Farm
We find, in studying Artificial Incubation, it has been in vogue, one might almost say, for centuries. The Chinese practiced artificial incubation by the use of hot sand and ovens, for it must be remembered that the Pekin Duck, which comes from China, is a non-setter. Therefore, ages ago, the Chinese were driven to the necessity of artificial incubation in order to maintain their large flocks of ducks. In studying the art one cannot help wondering that the progress in its development has been so slow, and the advance, year by year, has been almost nothing.