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five cents a pound, but I believe the foundation of a chick's 

 constitution and future growth is laid in the first few weeks of 

 its life, and it is cheaper in the end to feed as I do and have the 

 chicks live and thrive than to feed something else and have 

 them stunted and die. 



At the end of a week or ten days I begin to introduce a little 

 variety. I take wheat and cracked corn one part wheat to 

 two parts corn and feed a small quantity of this in place of 

 the rolled oats. I increase the quantity of wheat and corn from 

 day to day and decrease the quantity of rolled oats, so that 

 when the chicks are a month old I have weaned them from the 

 rolled oats and am feeding them on whole wheat and cracked 

 corn. When the chicks are ten days old I begin to give them 

 green food a little at first, but increasing in amount from day 

 to day. I feed onion tops, cabbage chopped fine, clover tips, 

 or if I can get nothing better a potato baked and cut in two. I 

 give meat in small quantities two or three times a week. Into 

 a kettle of boiling water I put a piece of cheap meat or soup 

 bone with considerable meat adhering, and keep it there until 

 well cooked. Then I pour off the liquid and take the meat and 

 chop it into fine bits, or grind up the bone in my bone cutter, 

 and throw a little to the chicks. They eat it greedily. I put a 

 little salt in the water so that it will get into the fibres of the 

 meat, because I think chicks need a certain amount of salt. 



I feed in this way until the chicks are "feathered out," when 

 I begin to feed them much as I do my hens a warm mash, 

 and two or three feeds of grain a day. Until my chicks are 

 ''feathered out" I keep food before them all the time, letting 

 them help themselves when they will. I ought to add that I am 

 careful to keep cool, fresh water before them from the very 

 first, and also charcoal and grit. 

 BROODER CHICKS WHAT ANOTHER MAN THINKS. 



Writes C. A. Stone in the Poultry Standard: "I generally 

 leave the chicks in the incubator about 24 hours after they are 

 practically through hatching, and meanwhile heat a brooder 

 to 95 degrees for about every 50 or 60 chicks. At first I strew 

 the front of the brooder with fine grit, and then give them 

 bread crumbs or wheat screenings or Cyphers Chick Food for 

 their first feed just what they will eat up clean and give 

 them all the water they want. I generally feed about five times 

 a day for the first two or three days, and gradually drop off to 

 three feeds at three weeks. However, after the first two or 

 three days I scatter their feed in a little litter, and make them 



