No. 3. This method has been advocated by the Maine Experimental Station. 

 Bread is made of a mixture of three parts cornmeal, one part wheat-bran, and one 

 part wheat middlings or flour. This is mixed with milk or water and salt is added. 

 It is well baked in a slow oven. The infertile eggs are boiled until hard, and are 

 finely ground, shell and all. One part ground egg and four parts bread-crumbs are 

 then mixed together, and run through a sausage-mill. The chicks are fed in the 

 morning and at night on the bread-and-egg mixture. From after the morning feed 

 until night they scratch in the litter for the dry cracked grain or chick-food which is 

 provided for them. The egg mixture is used for about two weeks, after which time 

 grains and mashes are used. 



No. 4. From the first, the chicks are fed cracked wheat and finely cracked corn. 

 This is scattered in the litter, and rolled oats are fed once or twice a day. In about 

 two weeks a dry mash consisting of two parts cornmeal, three parts bran, two parts 

 finely crushed oats, sifted, one part middlings, and one part beef-scraps is placed 

 before the chicks. 



No. 5. While the foregoing methods have commendable features, the following, 

 though simple and involving less labour, gives good results and is much more satis- 

 factory in feeding large flocks. During the first two or three days after feeding 

 commences, the chicks are fed some good commercial " chick-feed " or a mixture of 

 finely cracked corn and cracked wheat. In California they add to this cracked rice. 

 The chicks are given this mixture several times a day. It is scattered in the litter 

 and they scratch vigorously for it. After two or three days, they are given a dry 

 mash. There is no one best mash, though some are superior to others. A very good 

 mash is composed of two parts of bran, one part cornmeal, one part crushed oats, 

 and one part beef-scraps. This mash should be fed in a hopper similar to that shown 

 in Fig. G. When feeding this mash for the first time, it is best to give it immediately 

 after they have had a good feed of their regular cracked-grain ration. This will 

 tend to keep the chicks from overeating the dry mash, and they will become accus- 

 tomed to feeding from the hopper regularly. It is sometimes advisable to run the 

 dry-mash mixture through a sieve for the first few feedings. The chicks thrive 

 well on this combination ration. Some poultrymen in California and other places 

 add rolled oats to the cracked-grain mixture. Rolled oats forms one of the best 

 chick-feeds, and is comparatively inexpensive. Along with the cracked grains and 

 dry niash, green food in the form of kale or lettuce should be given. Grit, fine 

 particles of oyster-shell, and clean water should be kept before the chicks at all 

 times. 



