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same kind of rolled oats that I use on my own table. I feed them 

 dry. I feed them in little troughs made for the purpose, and keep 

 oats before the chicks all the time. Every day or two I take the 

 troughs and empty the oats remaining in them into the hens' dish, 

 and brush out the troughs with a whisk broom. It may seem 

 extravagant, to feed rolled oats at 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 some- 

 thing 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 noth- 

 ing 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 a soup bone with considera- 

 ble 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 "feath- 

 ered 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, a'nd 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 



