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is fresh and not perfectly baked will be quite too 

 sloppy, if saturated with milk. Ground grain may be 

 mixed with milk and fed to good advantage. If this 

 grain is mixed some time before it is to be given, 

 it will become more thoroughly soaked and will be in 

 a much softer condition than if fed immediately after 

 preparing. This is thought to be of considerable 

 importance by persons who have had years of ex- 

 perience in the preparation of food for little chick- 

 ens. Sour milk is thought by many of the most 

 successful poultry-raisers to be equally as desirable 

 as sweet milk. Some, however, prefer to use chiefly 

 the curd of sour milk in mixing the soft food. 



The following rations are recommended for young 

 chickens : 



MIXTURE No. 1* Lbs. 



Rolled oats 8 



Bread crumbs or cracker waste 8 



Sifted beef scrap (best grade) 2 



Bone meal 1 



MIXTURE No. 2* 



Wheat (cracked) 3 



Cracked corn (fine) 2 



Pinhead oatmeal 1 



MIXTURE No. 3* 



Wheat bran 3 



Corn meal 3 



Wheat middlings 3 



Beef scrap (best grade) 3 



Bone meal 1 



"Cornell University leaflet, "Cornell Ration for Chick Feeding." 



