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fine without removing the shell, and mixed 

 with equal parts of dry bread crumbs; to 

 each cupful, add one dessert-spoonful of 

 powdered charcoal. 



For three weeks, "little and often" should 

 be the rule. We feed five times a day, the 

 first meal at five-thirty, six-thirty, or seven 

 o'clock, according to the light. This meal 

 consists of pinhead oatmeal, cracked wheat, 

 cracked corn all passed through a fine 

 sieve; nine o'clock, stale bread which has 

 been baked in the oven and coarsely ground 

 in a hand-mill, just moistened with milk 

 that has been scalded; eleven-thirty, boiled 

 liver and green sprouts of onions half . a 

 cup of each, chopped fine, to one whole cup 

 of dried bread crumbs; at two o'clock more 

 milk and crumbs, lettuce, or tender greens, 

 chopped fine; from four to half-past, all the 

 dry mixed grain they will eat; fresh water 

 three times a day. 



I have never had any cases of gapes among 

 my chicks, and I attribute it to the constant 



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