HIGH-PRICED SPECIALTIES 



a few moments every day when the sun is shin- 

 ing. 



When the youngsters are two weeks old they 

 should have, in addition to dry feed in the 

 hoppers (which are before them all the time), 

 a daily mash composed of equal parts of corn 

 meal, wheat bran, and ground oats (with the 

 hulls sifted out). This mixture should be 

 scalded and fed warm, but never hot; and with 

 this sweet skim milk may be given in clean tin 

 drinking-pans arranged so that only the beaks 

 of the chicks can reach the milk, otherwise they 

 will befoul themselves and the milk. 



By the end of the fourth week the mash may 

 be fed twice a day, morning and afternoon. 

 Close watch should be kept for the first indica- 

 tion of indigestion, when the second mash must 

 be cut at once for a few days. But if the man 

 in charge has been careful to provide plenty of 

 air and exercise the chances of a setback are very 

 small. 



As the chickens grow, the heat in the brood- 

 ers should be gradually lowered from ninety to 

 eighty-five degrees under the hovers, and from 

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