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drinking fountain or in some other manner so that they 

 can have ready access to it, but so that they cannot get 

 into it and get wet. Rolled oats and corn bread crumbs 

 fed in conjunction with sweet milk as a drink where the 

 poults can help themselves to it all the morning has been 

 a very successful feed, the rolled oats being fed at noon 

 and the corn bread crumbs at night. Corn bread seems 

 to be a feed of which the poults are fonder than most any 

 other. Clabbered milk or cottage cheese and bread soaked 

 in milk and then squeezed dry are also feeds which the 

 poults like immensely. Hard-boiled eggs rubbed up with 

 rolled oats makes a very good feed for young poults until 

 they are two or three weeks old. In conjunction with this 

 may be fed clabbered milk. 



Another successful feed used by turkey growers con- 

 sists of ordinary white wheat bread cut up in slices so as 

 to let it dry and then rolled into crumbs. This is mois- 

 tened with a little sweet or sour milk and fed mixed with 

 hard-boiled eggs. The bread is just moistened and is not 

 sticky or sloppy. Any infertile eggs tested out of the sit- 

 tings should be saved for this purpose. It is also pos- 

 sible when living near a hatchery to purchase infertile 

 eggs which have been tested out of the incubators and 

 which can be used for this purpose. The wheat bread and 

 boiled egg can be fed for about three weeks, mixing with 

 it occasionally a little rolled oats. After three weeks, 

 rolled oats and chick feed can be gradually substituted and 

 after four or five weeks old they are fed grain sparingly 

 and only at night when they come home. In this connec- 



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