264 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 
upon a diet of bread alone. Let them have free access 
to coarse sand or any kind of grit. Don’t leave any 
holes open at night in your houses for rats to crawl 
through. 
Mr. I. K. Felch, the well-known breeder, feeds his 
“chicks by a fixed schedule. The first meal is boiled 
eggs chopped fine, shells and all, also corn cake and his 
excelsior meal crumbled into scalded milk. -After the 
first 24 hours, the early morning feed is excelsior meal, 
bread and scalded milk. At 10 o’clock, a feed of very 
fine cracked corn; at 2 o’clock, excelsior, bread and 
milk; at 6 o’clock, canary seed, millet seed and the fine 
cracked corn. If the season be winter, meat and green 
food, steamed clover, fine grit, etc., are added. After 
the chicks are two weeks old, and until they are eight 
weeks of age, the bill of fare is as follows: 
Monday—Breakfast, excelsior meal, bread and milk; 
ten o’clock meal, boiled meat, chopped fine, with steamed 
clover; two o’clock dinner, excelsior meal, bread and 
milk; supper, granulated corn, oats and barley. 
Tuesday—Breakfast, the broth in which meat was 
boiled, thickened while it was boiling (and when the 
meat was taken out) with excelsior meal; ten o’clock, 
chopped mangel-wurzel beets, and after eating what they 
would, allow to finish filling their crops with granulated 
corn; two o’clock dinner, the balance of the broth, 
mush, and a pan of sour milk, if to be had, to pick at 
till five or six o’clock; supper, all the granulated corn, 
oats and wheat they would eat should be given. 
Wednesday—Breakfast, fish chowder made palatable 
with salt and pepper, boiled potatoes, and thickened 
with corn meal and shorts; ten o’clock, oats and wheat, 
and all the steamed clover or green chopped oats they 
would eat; dinner, cracked corn, and balance of chow- 
der if not wholly disposed of at the morning meal ; sup- 
per, cracked corn and barley. 
