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and sometimes “granulated” oatmeal. It may seem a 
costly feed for chicks, but the quantity used during the 
time it is fed is a very small item for each individual 
chick. This pinhead oatmeal constitutes the sole feed of 
the chicks for the first week. After that half oatmeal and 
half cracked wheat are used for a week. Then finely- 
cracked corn and cracked wheat are used and the oatmeal 
is no longer fed. Do not try to substitute rolled oats 
for pinhead oatmeal, as the rolled oats are cooked in 
preparing for market and form a soggy mass (when fed 
alone) as soon as they get into the crop of the chick. At 
three weeks a little sweet beef scrap is put before the 
chicks and they are allowed to become accustomed to it. 
By the time the chicks are four weeks old whole wheat 
and cracked corn in the proportion of 1 part corn to 2 
parts wheat constitutes the grain feed, and the beef scrap 
is placed in a protected trough where the chicks can help 
themselves. 
During all this time tender green stuff is given in as 
large quantities as they will eat. Lawn clippings, green 
clover cut into short lengths, fresh lettuce leaves, onion 
tops, radish or mustard leaves, tender young oat or wheat 
blades, dandelion leaves, rape or any similar tender green 
stuff, is good for growing chicks and there is no danger 
of feeding too much. The grain is fed twice a day in 
such quantities as the chicks will eat clean within half an 
hour. Besides this, a mixture of equal parts of corn- 
meal, coarse wheat middlings and linseed oilmeal is kept 
in a protected trough where the chicks can eat between 
meals. 
For the first two weeks some care must be taken that 
the chicks do not overeat. After that they safely can be 
allowed to help themselves, but at no time should grain 
