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that it would not grow corn and still we grew a very successful crop 

 of sunflowers. On good land we would very much prefer to grow 

 corn. 



Figure 21 shows some of the appliances used in chick feeding. The 

 first feeding is done in a little tray about one inch deep. A few days 

 later they are fed in a small tray two inches deep and later in trays 

 about three inches deep. In each of these trays we have a wire cloth 

 that fits in this box so it can be lifted out. The chickens can eat and 

 yet they cannot scratch out the grain. When the chickens are four 



to six weeks old we feed them in a larger trough (Fig. 22), which is 

 really a box with a movable top that prevents the chickens from get- 

 ting over in the box, and then right over the grain proper is what is 



Figure 23. 



called a "super," which is a little frame with wires across it so that 

 we can lift it out to clean the trough and put in grain without re- 

 moving the "super." This device prevents the loss of feed. The trays 



