358 POULTRY MANAGEMENT. 



for the growth of bone, muscle and feathers. Fat producing 

 foods such as corn will not supply the materials necessary to 

 the rapid upbuilding of these parts, but it will supply the 

 fuel and energy producing elements. The chick when hatched 

 from the shell will weigh less than two ounces. At ten weeks 

 old it should weigh nearly two pounds. At this rate there 

 has been an increase of about 1,700 per cent., an enormous 

 increase in so short a time. 



