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until he has raised chicks successfully by the hen. It 
is one thing to hatch chicks, and quite another to raise 
them successfully. 
In regard to feed for chicks, which, of course, applies 
to chicks with the hen as well as those in the brooder, 
we give them the first day or two, when they are old 
enough to eat, cooked eggs chopped fine. Get the hen 
well filled with corn, or some soft feed, before feeding 
the egg to the chicks, otherwise the hungry hen will 
gobble itup. After 
this give them some 
baked Indian meal 
and flour bread 
mixed, chopped fine, 
and milk to drink. 
After the first week 
give them ground 
oats, cracked oats, 
cracked wheat and’: 
sifted cracked corn, | 
boiled broken rice } 
and white flour 
bread or graham 
bread. Milk, if you 
have it, if not, water; & “Bp 
for the brooder 
chicks. Give them FIG. 108. BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK. 
meat scrap which contains ground bone, and also cut 
fresh bone. You can, perhaps, keep a small chick alive 
on cracked corn alone, the same as half the farmers do; 
but that is not what the man or woman wants who is 
raising chicks for profit, and who desires to get three- 
pound-per-pair chicks in ten, or at the farthest, twelve, 
weeks; and to do this you must work them for all they 
are worth. But do not feed on cracked corn alone. I 
assure you, they get tired of it, the same as we would 
