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A very good feed to start little chicks with is hard-boiled eggs, 

 crumbled up, shell and all, mixed with common bread crumbs, oat- 

 meal or rolled oats. AVe prefer to use the raw egg mixed with the 

 other ingredients in preference to the hard-boiled eggs. Feed what 

 they will eat up clean every two or three hours for the first few days, 

 slightly moisten with sour milk or buttermilk. After the fourth or 

 fifth day you can begin to feed some commercial chick feed or cracked 

 wheat, oats and corn. 



The following ingredients are necessary to make a good poultry 

 food, either for young or old fowls: 



We term them the ''5 G's." Grit, grain, greens, grubs and gump- 

 tion. Grit to grind the food must be supplied. You can place your 

 ear to the side of a hen at night after you have given a feed of whole 

 grain and you can hear the gizzard grinding, grinding, grinding. 

 Therefore, grit is important. Grains composed of corn, wheat, oats 



A good hopper in which to 



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and kaffir corn are the best. Greens, such as alfalfa, clover, vegetables- 

 etc., are essential. If you plant a small patch of mangel beets in 

 some corner of the garden or some waste spot about the farm, it will 

 yield you an immense quantity of green food. Store these in the 

 cellar for the winter. Cut one-half in two and stick it on a large nail 

 driven into the side of the wall. All the hens will leave will be the 

 rind. Grubs represent worms and biiii-s. and if the fowls are not on 

 free range where they can get them, meat must be supplied in some 

 form, such as milk, beef scraps or grern cut bone. Gumption is the 

 common sense part of the feed, and is perhaps the most essential of 

 all the ingredients. 



