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with scalded milk; then, morning, excelsior meal bread and scalded milk; 10 A. M., 

 granulated corn; 2 P. M., excelsior meal bread and scalded milk; 6 P. M., canary seed, 

 millet seed, granulated corn. After two weeks a varied diet, two soft feeds alternating 

 with two hard feeds, excelsior meal bread frequently given, and morning mash often 

 mixed with meat or in broth of meat; green food fed regularly. 



Excelsior Meal grind together 20 Ibs. corn, 15 Ibs. oats, 10 Ibs. barley; add 10 Ibs. 

 wheat bran. To make cakes : take, one quart sour milk or buttermilk, add a little salt 

 and molasses, a quart of water, a heaping teaspoon saleratus ; thicken with the meal, a 

 little thicker than batter for corn cakes ; bake in shallow pans. 



(25). Ration for Chicks for Stock. (LAMBERT). Corn, wheat, oats, equal parts, 

 ground; mix with milk, bake; feed all they will eat five times a day, at three hour 

 intervals. After four weeks alternate with cracked corn, crushed wheat, etc. Use whole 

 corn and wheat as soon as it is eaten easily. If milk cannot be obtained for johnnycake, 

 mix alternately with desiccated fish and animal meal. 



(26). Ration for Chicks on Range. (Mrs. THOMAS). Warm mash (same as for 

 old fowls), in the morning; millet where they can get it all day long; whole wheat at 

 night ; night feed varied occasionally by using other grains. 



(27). Rations for Chicks, for Stock Birds on Limited Range or in Roomy 

 Yards. Winter, Morning, mash as for old fowls (^14) ; 9 A. M., baked cake of corn 

 chop and house scraps, made as follows : add a little soda to sour milk ; throw in the 

 scraps, finely broken ; stir in the chop to make a very stiff batter. (The stiffer the better. 

 Thin batter takes longer to bake, and bakes with a thicker, tougher crust) ; bake in deep 

 pans, well greased. Feed the heart of this cake in chunks, the crust crumbled or cut in a 

 bone cutter. Feed cake again at 11.30 A. M. and 2.30 P. M. At dusk feed whole wheat. 

 Give both milk and water to drink, boiling the milk if there are symptoms of looseness 

 of the bowels. Summer. 5.30 A. M., mash ; 7.30 A. M., green food, lettuce or cabbage ; 

 9 A. M., corn cake; n A. M., millet; 2 P. M., corn cake; 4 P. M., corn cake, meat, or 

 green food; 6 to 7 P. M., whole wheat, all they will eat, followed by corn either cracked 

 or whole. (It will be found that chicks after eating their fill of one kind of food will 

 shortly, if given the opportunity, stuff themselves on another. It will not hurt them in 

 the least to do this in the evening, and this method of feeding can be made very effective 

 in forcing growth). 



(28). Rations for Chicks on Good (Orchard) Range. Mash (as in (His)), 5.30 

 A. M. ; cracked corn, 9.30 A. M. ; cracked corn, whole wheat, or mash, 2 P. M. ; cracked 

 corn, 6 P. M. 



147. Good Feeding Requires Skill. No matter how thorough a 

 * ' book knowledge " one may have of the properties of foods and the principles 

 of feeding, no matter how familiar he may be with accepted formulas for 

 correct feeding, or how closely he may follow a good system of feeding, he 

 finds that good feeding depends finally on SKILL. Skill is acquired only 

 through practice. Skill in feeding is not merely mechanical. It depends on 

 a judgment trained to observe, closely and without conscious effort, the 

 appearances of fowls, to note beginnings of departures from normal growing 

 or producing conditions, and to decide, as if by instinct, how to preserve or 

 restore the health of the fowls. 



