BUILDING THE FRAME 91 



elements necessary to build bone and muscles, the 

 former especially is one of the very best poultry 

 foods to be found. To the oats and wheat may be 

 added kaffir corn, millet and some cracked corn, all 

 of which combined forms an excellent grain food 

 for the growing chicks. 



Wet mashes containing boiled potatoes and other 

 starchy foods are also condemned as a food for the 

 growing chicks, as they are very fattening and very 

 apt to cause bowel trouble and indigestion. Person- 

 ally I am very much opposed to feeding any kind of 

 wet mashes at any time ; as experiments have shown 

 that dry mashes produce better results with less dan- 

 ger of the birds overeating, and practically no dan- 

 ger of sour crops or bowel troubles originating there- 

 from. A mixture of bran, middlings, ground oats, 

 mealed alfalfa, to which may be added when fed 

 some high grade beef scraps, makes an ideal dry 

 mash for the growing chicks, and although this is 

 not a forcing food it assists materially in building 

 up the chicks and developing them as quickly as 

 nature intended them to advance. 



The evenly, steadily growing chicks are the ones 

 that make good, and are superior to those that have 

 been forced in development. 



