he still fails to fully grasp their meaning and application. We will 

 endeavor to explain a few of them in the simplest possible manner. 



PROTEIDS Proteids are the foods which renew the waste of the 

 fowl. In any animal there is a continuous process of waste which must 

 be as continuously renewed. In the fowl there is not only the natural wear 

 of the body, and the natural excretions of moisture, etc., but there is manu- 

 factured and voided each day, an egg of the average weight of one and 

 three fourths ounces, which would equal three pounds in human beings of 

 average weight could they be forced to do a like stunt. 



The elements of food which build up the 

 young chick in bone, flesh (not fat) and feath- 

 ers, and which supply the tremendous waste in 

 the grown fowl, are called proteids, and life 

 cannot begin or continue without them. Pro- 

 tein does not come alone in any one food, but 

 is mixed with other elements. The following 

 list of foods are very high in proteids and are, 

 therefore, called protein foods: Cottonseed 

 Meal, Flax Meal, Linseed Meal, Gluten Meal, 

 Brewers' Dried Grains, Malt Sprouts, Wheat 

 Middlings, Bran, etc. Now: because of their 

 high protein value, these various foods are 

 rich and they must not be fed as liberally as 

 you would ordinary ground grains. The fowl 



can take up into its system a certain amount of protein. If you feed more 

 it is wasted, and what is worse, taxes digestion and bowel trouble is sure to 

 follow. Many formulas recommended by common authorities are far too 

 strong in oil meals. Include protein feeds, but watch the limit carefully. 

 Protein is always an expensive food element, so do not waste it. 



CHICK FEED Mixture 

 of 1 part each, by weight, of 

 Corn, Wheat, Hulled Oats 

 or Pin Head Oat Meal, and 

 Kaffir Corn, cracked, screen- 

 ed, and sized suitable for 

 chicks. To this add 1 part 

 of Millet Seed, ^ part Grit 

 (chick size), and 1 A part 

 Charcoal (chick size). We 

 would also recommend any 

 of the high-grade chick 

 feeds on the market. 



CARBOHYDRATES These can be called the fuel of the body as 

 they furnish the heat. It is necessary to keep the body warm besides build- 

 ing it up. We burn coal to keep a living room at seventy degrees of tem- 

 perature and carbohydrates must be fed to keep the fowl s temperature at its 

 normal point, (which is above fever heat in man), or the fowl becomes 

 chilled and dies. Carbohydrates furnish the steam to warm the egg factory 

 and the strength with which to manufacture the proteids into eggs and new 

 material. Carbohydrates also produce fat and make a fowl lazy and inactive 

 unless the fowl can be made to exercise. Exercise consumes the carbohy- 

 drates in the blood, leaving the blood rich in 

 protein to make the egg and to build up, and 

 keep up, the wearing parts. Carbohydrates are 

 the starchy foods, such as Corn, Cornmeal, 

 Cob Meal, Hominy Meal, Ground Oats, Bar- 

 ley, Buckwheat, etc. You will find it pays best 

 to feed a variety of grains, mixing them or 

 feeding one or two at one meal and a differ- 

 ent kind the next. The body gets fuller food 

 value when there is this variety. Vary from 

 time to time, but never make sudden changes. 

 For instance, on a cold night a good idea is to 

 feed all whole corn, but in milder weather mix 

 oats with it. 



GROWING FEED Equal 

 parts Wheat, Cracked Corn, 

 Kaffir Corn, and Hulled Oats. 

 Use no Oats with hulls nor 

 Barley or Buckwheat until 

 chicks are at least two 

 months old. Use Beef 

 Scraps in hopper or in 

 mash feed, Ground Green 

 Bone, or Blood in mash. 



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