40 POULTRY 
shingles: one hundred pounds each of corn 
meal or hominy feed, bran, white middlings, 
gluten feed, meat scraps, and ninety pounds 
of rolled oats. This should be left before the 
chicks fifteen or twenty minutes in the after- 
noon. The next day it should again be 
placed before them for perhaps a half hour in 
the morning and a half hour in the after- 
noon. On succeeding days the time should 
be gradually increased so that by the time 
the chicks are three weeks old the dry mash 
is constantly before them. From the time 
the chicks are three weeks old until they are 
approximately eight weeks old the amount of 
chick feed given them should be so regulated 
that they will be getting half chick feed and 
half dry mash, by weight. For further 
instructions on summer feeding of chicks, 
see the succeeding chapter. 
Value of Milk. The question is fre- 
quently asked, ‘‘How long can one afford to 
buy milk to feed the chicks?” If skim milk 
or buttermilk can be purchased for two cents 
or less per quart, the poultryman can afford 
to feed this all summer. Even if it is neces- 
sary to pay a higher price for skim milk it 
