MIKE CLARK CHICKEN FANCIER Baby Chicks Given Lots! of Sunshine! ‘Mike’ Turns Ilutt'liiugs Out to Scratch Early, anti ! Keeps Inside Quar ters Warm. Has Real Playground Mike Clark, former Douglas county sheriff, who used to chase criminals in and around Omaha, unlike many so-called retired men, is not idling Ids time away on park benches and tit pleasure resorts. Mike has a beau tiful home out Florence way and specializes in raising nne Kliode is land lied chickens. A little visit around his place last, week brought out some of the secrets of his suc cess. .Mike lias his basement fixed up as a hatchery. The baby chicks are hatched in incubators and then trans ferred to a platform near an open window. The window leads out upon the sunny side of the lawn Into an inclosuro which makes - real pla; ground for the baby chicks. The chicks were scratching in the loos* dirt as happy as baby chicks could i>e. They were ldg-boned, strong chi which showed unusual vitality. “Hc>w do the chicks happen to be s'i strong looking, Mike?" we asked. "Well, in the first place f intend to breed I lie klrfd that have constitu tions. 1 feed those fellows correctly," said Clark. Feeding Methods Clark feeds regularly starter. He gets them out on the dirt as soon ss possible. Then, during Hie sum mer he sees that the growing chicks have plenty of green feed. He be lieves most baby chicks are stUHTr-fl by too close quarters and lack of fresh air. "It pays to get them out on "old Mother Karth’ early.!’ said Mike. He does not permit the cold weather to interfere with this plan, for lie told about shoveling the snow away from the window in order to make an outside runway for the chicks. "Keep them dry and have a good warm place for them to go to i hen they come inside and one need not fear the weather,’’- said Clark. Trap Nesting Clark believes in trap nesting in or der to get the records authentic, lie has a pen of line birds finder trap nest supervision now and makes it a regular practice for all new pens used in his breeding operations. "Trap nesting is not tlio easiest way to handle chickens, but it is the only correct way to know your hen«.’ said Mike. 11m has been winner In many big shows with his birds and takes great pride in breeding an ex cellent strain of fine poultry. No ex pense was spared by dark in getting his foundation stock together, lie believes many beginners majte a big mistake when they start the poultry business with cheap, inferior stock. l*en Breeding Mike advises thft use of one cockrel for each eight or nine breeding hens, lie- declared that most breeders used too many hens In the breeding pens. ’’About seven heps for the cocks, and not more than nine for a cock rel is the right, number to get beat results," said Clark. His hens are the big deep-bodied kind and show Hie capacity that Is needed for egg production. I ililor and Agent \ irit Snmmerliill While making the round of Doug las and Harpy enmities we drove up to Slimmer Hill farm. AVayland Mt < H e, ow ner, showed u* about the farm. McGee claims there is not a seed planted -upon the farm which Is not “ pure-bred." He plants livid's yellow dent corn. His system of selecting seed corn Is scientific. He selects his seed by hand from the field. Lrlngs It to a special room which Is equipped with drying racks. The corn Is sorted and placed in the racks. Helow the room the seed corn Is treated to a hot blast from a specially designed stove which pours Its heat up through a large funnel. The win dows above are opened and perfectly dry air Is circulated through the corn. We drove about the Summerhlll farm for an hour and looked over the stock and crops. McGee has the best j>atch of winter wheat we .saw In the day's drive. He has 19 head of spring calves which look good. One old cow gave us a little thrill by chasing us from the vicinity of her pure-white baby. Khe whs within her tights, sc we went on to the 200-ncro field of rye. McGee will have rye enough on this field to make a "supply" for the entire city of Omaha. Maxwell says he raises more rye than all the rest of the county put together. SHEEPO I f Lawn and Carden I Fartiliser f. Manufactured, Delivered and | ' ! Applied to Your Lawn jj] Pci feet distribution over the ai%« H j you daaire fertilized. Let the | | Nebraska Fertilizer Co. [ five you this a owl CO this tpritift B and bocomo one of our mony setis- B if fled customers. JJ [t For SHEEPO, Phono JA 12*3 j l Also for Sals by Sredmen | , and Fin ri at a p| 0 1 Scenes Taken on Douglas and Sarpy County Farms r—:--— . r . . " • ' " *1 No. 1. A number of "A” type house* on the farm of Phil Frazier, Fort Crook, Neb. This type of house, while better than the old fashioned [colony house for farrowing pigs. Is not considered th. bent type. Frnzb r so vs h» prefeis the Whls' inand type of house, Hl»I(h is lower and better ventilated than the tall type, it holds the warmth created by the sow, has higher doors which permit the light to penetrate farther bnck into the house, thus obviating the necessity of the pigs sleeping close to the draught In order to get Into the sun* light. Plans for th® Whlesmand typo of house may he secured from any Nebraska county ngrh ultural ugtnt or from the state university, agricultural college. No. 2. rtctno upon Summerhill farm, near tunning ton. Mills mac uifioent estate is owned by Wa.slaud YlcOec. The herd cf fin** purebred shorthorns has been gradually Im proved by the use of good Hirer, from the university farm nr Lincoln. No. ^i. "Old l)Mis\ *' M l i - I on «.f the good red cows belonging to l'i ed »dirt. I u imingion * do t I < lot to the I’ought* county cow . . testing association, lie Is testing out his herd of common cows to deter mine the hest ones. The high pro ducing cows are being i rossed with a pure bred Ayrshire sire. Tills cow hns a 12 months record of S,42.'> pounds of milk. 3X1.4 pound* butter fat. I ,'i per cent test. No. I. The ftccredllist flock of white orphlngtons tielonging to Mrs $r litter r.d Pit!! said, "I am going to raise • hem all, for I have learned how to noise pigs." lie is a booster for the l.og lot sanitation methods being ad | voeated by state extension workers. He told us that a few years ago he I was losing nearly all of ills pigs. He | had Id sows which raised only 30 i pigs. Something had to he done. He li-ame to' Omaha agid looked up the ■ ■■■ 11 .. ' ' ' ' • count/ agent. Maxwell explained the method of farrowing the p'gs upon clean ground. Phil went home and MaKwell forgot all about his call. !,