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salt and red pepper. When chicks eat mash freely alternate hard and soft foods. Third 

 week and after, first feed in morning, hard grain ; next chopped raw potatoes followed 

 by a little cut cabbage or onions. At 9 and n A. M., i and 3 P. M., mash. At 5 P. M., 

 cracked corn. Finish off at six to eight weeks by adding cotton seed meal and a little 

 treacle to the mash. 



(17). Ration for Broilers (PRESSEY). First ten days, baked cake, 3 qts. corn 

 meal, i qt. wheat middlings, i cup meat meal; mix with water or skim milk, to which 

 has been added 4 tablespoons vinegar, 2 teaspoons soda; mashed potato once a day. 

 After ten days, take 2 parts corn, i part wheat, i part oats, ground fine; to each 10 qts. 

 of this mixture i qt. bran, i pt. middlings, i pt. meat meal, one-half cup bone meal: 

 mix stiff with warm water two hours before feeding. Fatten on a mixture of 2 parts 

 corn, i part wheat, ground together, ground meat added; mix stiff with warm water two- 

 hours before feeding; feed three or four times a day. 



(18). Ration for Broilers. (HOWE). First ten days, johnnycake, i pt. corn 

 meal, i teacup bran, i teaspoon ground meat, i raw egg, i teaspoon soda, i teacup cold 

 water; bake two hours. After ten days, ground wheat, oats and corn, moistened. 

 Oyster shell, bone and charcoal before the chicks in separate dishes. 



(19). Ration for Broilers. (PETERSON). First ten days, stale bread crumbs 

 moistened with milk, alternated with dry bread crumbs at two hour intervals ; skim milk 

 to drink. After ten days, ground corn i part to ground wheat 2 parts, moistened. 



(20). Ration for Broilers. (WHITE). First week, plain johnnycake, baked 

 without soda. After first week, mash, equal parts corn meal, bran and middlings, with 

 a little meat scraps. (Lessen middlings if chicks become costive; increase middlings if 

 chicks show looseness). Scatter a little grain about to induce exercise between feeds. 

 Have grit and charcoal constantly by them ; If chicks do not voluntarily eat charcoal it is 

 mixed in the mash. 



(21). Ration for Chicks. (HUNTER). First feed, hard boiled eggs, chopped fine 

 i part, to dry bread crumbs 3 parts. First five or six weeks, coarse oat meal moistened 

 with skim milk alternated at two hour intervals with dry bread crumbs until 4 P. M., 

 then feed cracked wheat or corn. Meat twice a week; green food often. From six to 

 ten weeks old, morning, bread crumbs ; 10 A. M., oat meal ; 1.30 P. M., cracked wheat : 

 5 P. M., whole wheat and cracked corn, alternately; vegetables and meat continued a^ 

 before. After ten weeks, rations as for adult fowls. (See 



(22). Ration for Chicks for Stock Birds. (BOYER). First week, rolled oats or 

 pin head oat meal fed in troughs, alternate with stale bread crumbs, dry ; boiled milk to 

 drink. After first week mash, 2 parts bran, i part corn meal, (or 2 parts bran, i part 

 corn meal, i part ground wheat), a handful of meat scraps to a pail of mash. After two 

 weeks give also cracked wheat and corn. Keep grit, oyster shell, and powdered charcoal 

 by them. Feed freely green tops ; or, if these cannot be had, roast potatoes cut in 

 halves. 



(23). Ration for Chicks for Stock Birds. (RUDD). First two weeks, crumbled 

 johnnycake (from waste bread) and granulated oats, dry ; green food and powdered 

 charcoal constantly before them. After two weeks whole or broken wheat and cracked 

 corn added. At three weeks begin to give moist food, stale bread soaked in sweet milk, 

 thickened with corn meal, meal about one-half of the whole. At four weeks discontinue 

 granulated oats. Cracked corn always before the chicks until they are old enough to eat 

 whole corn, then whole corn always before them until full grown. 



(24). Ration for Chicks for Stock Birds. (FELCH). First meal, boiled eggs 

 chopped fine, shell and all, with baked corn cake, or excelsior meal cake, crumbled 



