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In feeding chicks use a trough, as illustrated herein, or a clean board; 

 if the latter is used sprinkle the food upon it, adding more if necessary. 

 When the chicks have had sufficient, remove the trough or board. These 

 should be kept thoroughly clean. Discontinue giving hard-boiled eggs 

 after the second or third day. Then give coarse oatmeal, following with 

 crushed wheat, barleymeal, maizemeal, &c., alternately. It is advisable 

 to sift barleymeal and rolled oats through a sieve, in order to remove 

 the husks. To produce rapid growth the chicks should be fed at day- 

 light in the morning, and as late as they can see to eat at night. A 

 little hemp, millet, or canary-seed given occasionally makes a nice change. 

 Keep them well supplied with short-cut green food, such as watercress, 

 lettuce, clover, &c., when obtainable, and chopped raw vegetables; but 

 do not leave any lying about to get trampled upon and go sour. After 

 the chicks are a few days old give once a day to each twelve chicks an 

 ounce of boiled meat that has been passed through a mincing-machine. 

 Mix just as much food as is necessary for each meal, and give the chicks 

 only what they will eat up readily. Should any of the chicks show 

 signs of bowel-trouble, mix some powdered charcoal in the soft feed. 

 Some fine, sharp grit should be sprinkled and mixed in the chicken- 

 feed for the first week, after that the grit may be kept in a small vessel 

 near the brooder for the chicks to help themselves. Grit is as essential to 

 chicks as to full-grown fowls. Charcoal or charred corn is also valuable 

 as a preventive or corrective of digestive troubles. 



Mix one teaspoonful of sulphur for each thirty chicks with the soft 

 food twice a week during dry fine weather. 



See that they have plenty of fresh clean water. Have the drinking- 

 vessel thoroughly clean, and never on any account leave the water in the 

 sun. 



The following is a good food for chicks : Mix equal parts Indian corn, 

 barley, and oats (all ground), and add a small quantity of bran ; make 

 the whole into bread by using sour milk, and bake; then crumble and 

 make to proper consistency with scalded milk. 



Do not allow chickens and old fowls to roost together, as it tends 

 to stunt the growth of the young birds. 



DRINK AND FOOD TROUGHS FOR CHICKENS. 



OPEN 



W -.- liCLOSED 



This illustration shows an excellent food-trough for chickens. " Open " shows the 

 trough drawn out so that it may be filled with the food ; " closed " shows the trough 

 pushed in, the arched wires preventing the chickens from getting into the trough and 

 spoiling or wasting the food. It is made of zinc, and easily cleaned. 



