266 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 
For the benefit of those who wish to make it, Mr. I. K. 
Felch’s rule is given for his excelsior meal bread. ‘Grind 
into a fine meal in the following proportions: Twenty 
pounds of corn, fifteen pounds oats, ten pounds barley, 
ten pounds wheat bran. We make the cakes by taking 
one quart of sour milk or buttermilk, adding a little 
salt and molasses, one quart of water, in which a large 
heaping teaspoonful of saleratus has been dissolved, then 
thicken all with the excelsior meal to a little thicker 
batter than your wife does for corn cakes. Bake in 
shallow pans till thoroughly cooked. We believe a well- 
appointed kitchen and brick oven pays, and in the bak- 
ing of this food enough for a week can be cooked ata 
time.” Some growers obtain stale bread very cheaply 
and use it in place of a cooked bread like the above. 
A correspondent furnishes this excellent bill of fare: 
First week—at 6 a. m., cracker mixture; 9 a. m., clab- 
bered milk; 12 m., cracker mixture; 3 p. m., chopped 
cabbage; 6 p. m., cooked oat meal. Second week—6 
a. m., cracker mixture; 9 a. m., clabbered milk; 12 m., 
oat meal, dry; 3 p. m., chopped cabbage; 6 p. m.,. 
cracker mixture. Third week—6 a. m., cracker mix- 
ture, omitting the egg; 9 a. m., chopped cabbage; 12 
m., cracked wheat; 3 p. m., clabbered milk; 6 p. m., 
oat meal, cooked. Fourth week—6 a. m., cracker mix- 
ture; 9 a. m., clabbered milk and oat meal, dry; 12 m., 
chopped cabbage and cracked wheat; 3 p. m., cracked 
corn; 6 p. m., cracker mixture. Skimmed milk is 
allowed freely, but no water. The cracker mixture con- 
sists of cracker dust soaked in milk and mixed with 
boiled yolk of eggs, fine ground bone and ground beef 
scraps; the first week it should be nearly half egg. 
R. G. Buffinton writes: feed the young chickens 
the first three days on hard-boiled eges, and then stale 
bread or broken crackers for a few days longer, or until 
they get smart enough to run out. I then give them 
