week, and give all they will eat up clean at each 

 meal, except meat. 



Grass is wholesome for chicks as soon as they 

 begin to eat. If they do not have access to grassy 

 runs or yards, it is well to cut a few fresh sods as 

 often as convenient, and place them in the runs. 

 If this cannot be done, fresh cut grass is good. 

 When grass is out of season, finely chopped 

 cabbage once a day or every other day to chicks 

 over three weeks old. 



Do not forget the charcoal, grit, and a box of 

 crushed shell for each brood. 



FATTENING BROILERS. 



Fattening broilers by close confinement is a mis- 

 take. Try to put on all possible flesh by giving 

 them all the food they will eat up clean, and the 

 more exercise they have the better their appetite 

 will be, the faster they will grow, and the hardier 

 birds they will make. 



If you undertake to force chicks under four 

 weeks old by soft food, you will impair their diges- 

 tion, cause them to be weak in the legs, and to 

 feather fast. You may gain a little flesh by the 

 soft food from the start, on those chicks which do 

 thrive; but that will be overbalanced by losses 

 from leg weakness, diarrhoea, forced feathers, etc. 

 By any method of feeding some chickens will be 



