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HOW TO FEED POULTRY FOR ANY PURPOSE WITH PROFIT 



given in a separate hopper. Where milk is available the 

 chickens should have all they will drink. Keep charcoal, 

 grit, and shell before the chicks at all times, and when they 

 are confined to small yards, or have limited range, feed lib- 

 erally of green feed, 



Ration No. 2a Ontario Agricultural College Ration 



Chicks are taken from the brooders at from six to eight 

 weeks according to the weather. From about eight weeks 

 they are fed usually three times a day, a mash as previously 

 given in the morning, and whole wheat and cracked corn 

 at noon and night. If it is desired to force growth, two 

 feeds of mash are given daily, and the amount of animal 

 meal in the mash is increased. 



Ration No. 3a Cornell Ration for Chicks 



Feed in hoppers the mash mixture No. 3 given for small 

 chicks, and equal parts of wheat and cracked corn. If it is 

 desired to hasten development, give one meal a day of moist 

 mash. Provide grit, charcoal, shell, and bone. Give grass 

 range or plenty of green feed. 



Ration No. 4a New Jersey Experiment Station Ration 



Keep the dry mash before the chicks all the time, and 

 twice a day scatter over their range a grain feed of equal 

 parts of whole wheat and cracked corn. 



Ration No. 5a Ohio Agricultural Col- 

 lege Ration 



Omit the noon feed of grain pre- 

 viously given, and put in a hopper of 

 the mash mixture. Keep this open for 

 an hour at noon. After the tenth 

 week omit the morning feed of grain 

 and keep the hopper open until noon. 

 From -this time give chicks only one 

 feed of grain a day late in the after- 

 noon. 



Ration No. 6a Massachusetts Agricult- 

 ural College Ration 



Keep the dry mash always before the 

 chicks in hoppers, and feed night and 

 morning what wheat and cracked corn 

 the birds will eat readily. Do not feed 

 so much that they will not forage. 



Ration No. "a Maine Experiment Sta- 

 tion Ration 



Keep the dry mash before the chicks 

 in hoppers, and feed in litter, twice a 

 day, equal parts of good cracked corn 

 and whole wheat. 



Or, keep in separate slatted troughs 

 cracked corn, wheat, meat scrap, 

 cracked bone, oyster shell, and grit, 

 and let the chicks eat at will. 



Ration No. 8a Wisconsin Experi- 

 ment Station Ration 



Ration No. 17a Oregon Agricultural College Ration 



Continue the ration given for small chicks in the latter 

 part of the brooding period. 



Ration No. 18a Washington Agricultural College Ration 



Feed the grain mixture with coarser grains substituted 

 for the fine, three times a day. Keep dry mash in hop- 

 pers. Give unstinted supply of succulent green feed. 



Ration No. 19a California Experiment Station Ration 



Same as during latter part of brooding period. 



Ration No. 20a Kansas Experiment Station Ration 



Same as during the latter part of the brooding period. 



Ration No. 21a Henry D. Smith's Ration 



Cracked corn and meat scrap in separate hoppers, cab- 

 bage, mangels, or green rye. It should be said that this 

 ration was used for winter chickens, that is chickens 

 hatched in the late summer and early fall, and making their 

 growth from weaning to maturity in winter, not in summer. 



Ration No. 22a to 26a 



Same as during the latter part of the brooding period. 



Give to chicks on range, in hoppers, 

 a mash of two parts each of bran and 

 corn meal, and one part of middlings. 



For grain feed cracked corn, or when barley is low enough 

 in price feed some of it. Feed grain either broadcast or 

 in hoppers, according to circumstances. Where sparrows 

 are numerous there is less loss by feeding in hoppers. 



Ration No. 9a Minnesota Experiment Station Ration 



Put chicks on free range and feed from hoppers large 

 enough to hold a week's supply, a hopper of cracked corn 

 and small grains, and one of the dry mash for each colony 

 of chicks. 



Ration No. lOa Purdue Experiment Station Ration 



Put the chicks on grass range and feed in outdoor hop- 

 pers large enough to contain two or three weeks' supply; 

 one hopper of mash, and one of whole wheat and cracked 

 corn to each house. 



Ration No. lla Oklahoma Experiment Station Ration 



With the dry mash supplied in hoppers give twice a day 

 equal parts of wheat, cracked corn, and kaflr corn; or, two 

 parts cracked corn, two parts wheat, one part oats. 



Ration No. 12a Missouri University Ration 



The same as followed from the time the chicks are 

 three or four weeks old. 



Ration No. 13a Manitoba Agricultural College Ration 



After the chicks are six weeks old put their dry mash 

 and grain in a two compartment outdoor hopper, and give 

 them free range. 



Ration No. I la Michigan Experiment Station Ration 



Continue the dry mash in hoppers, and feed wheat and 

 cracked corn, either in hoppers or scattered on the range. 



Ration No. 15a North Carolina Experiment Station Ration 



Feed chicks on range the same as old stock mash of 

 wheat bran, corn meal, and ground oats; grain feed, cracked 

 corn, wheat, and oats. 



Ration No. 16a Montana Experiment Station Ration 



With the dry mash used for chicks when younger feed 

 a grain mixture of equal parts of wheat, oats, and cracked 

 peas, by measure. 



COOPS FOR GROWING CHICKS AT EDGE OF APPLE ORCHARD ON A 

 NEW ENGLAND FARM 



It will be noted that there is even more apparent 

 similarity in rations as used and recommended by differ- 

 ent institutions and practical experts for chicks during 

 this period, than during the earlier brooding period. There 

 is, in fact, a sameness and a simplicity of statement that 

 tends to be misleading, giving the impression that the 

 chickens may be left much to themselves after they have 

 passed the weaning age. It is true that when the matter 

 of keeping them warm no longer requires special attention, 

 the routine work of caring for them is much reduced, 

 and that the task is still further lightened when circum- 

 stances admit of hopper feeding of both the mash and 

 the grain. Yet it is rarely practical to put feeding wholly 

 on a system that is entirely automatic, feeding the grain 

 products in bulk, letting the chicks eat of them at will, 

 and leaving them to get all the feed accessories from the 

 range. That can be done only where the range is un- 

 usually good, where the temperature is constantly moder- 

 ate, where there are no enemies of any kind to molest the 

 chicks, and where the utilization of waste feeds not on the 

 range used by the chicks does not have to be considered. 



Usually one or more of the considerations mentioned 

 make it necessary to modify more or less the plan of 

 hopper feeding, and notwithstanding the advantages of 

 that practice, and the economy of using it, the fact re- 

 mains that a certain amount of personal attention to 

 feeding, and the existence in a flock of poultry of a sense 

 of dependence upon and confidence in the person who 

 feeds them, make for better results than when the rela- 



