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TABLE G. Methods of incubation and brooding uwd on 'J> Kan-vax farm*. 



The methods of feeding the chicks are for the most part very 

 simple. Some chicks are grown on nothing but corn meal and 

 cracked corn, and others receive only millet seed until they are large 

 enough to consume the coarser grains. There are many farms. ho\v- 



FIG. 1. Method of toe-marking chicks to determine age. Sixteen different toe m:irks. 



ever, where such extreme measures are not used, a happy medium 

 l>eing reached by using some commercial chick feed in connection 

 with such products as are produced on the farm. 



METHOD OF MARKING POfl.TRY TO DETERMINE ACE. 



At the present time 05 per cent of the farmers have no positive. 

 method of determining the age of their poultry. From an economic 



