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batter with milk and baking powder, bake well and 

 feed it dry. A woman who has been, successful in this 

 line gives her recipe for chick-bread as follows : take 

 equal parts of sifted ground oats, corn and wheat, 

 with wheat bran added equal to the whole bulk of 

 ground feed, moisten with skimmed milk, add suffi- 

 cient powder and bake. A little raw lean meat or 

 finely cut raw bone and meat is beneficial. A little 

 only should be given at first ; a piece as big as a grain 

 of corn is sufficient for a chick a few days old. This 

 food is not essential when the grain ration is mixed 

 with milk or dried meat. 



In feeding chicks, as well as fowls, grass or vege- 

 tables should not be omitted. In the absence of grass 

 in their runs, and in cold weather, chopped onions, let- 

 tuce, cabbage or other succulent vegetables should be 

 supplied. Short clippings from the lawn, fresh, grassy 

 sods, and the sweeping from the barn floor carried to 

 their runs will be relished, and furnish the needed 

 bulky vegetable food and afford healthful exercise. 

 Little chicks should have five or six meals a day until 

 three weeks old. 



Gritty matter is required by chicks at the very 

 beginning. To supply it, sprinkle coarse sand over 

 the board on which they are first fed. If confined in 

 houses or yards, or in runs where grit is scarce, it 

 should be as carefully supplied as food. It is well to 

 have a small trough or box in a convenient place filled 

 with gravel, broken oyster or clam shells and granu- 

 lated charcoal. The latter is not valuable as grit, but 

 I is very useful in correcting disorders of digestion. 



