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greedily eaten and well digested. For meat for the 

 3'oimgest chickens, we have given the sterile eggs boiled 

 hard and ground through a sausage machine. While it 

 is preferaljle, if one has time, to chop the egg fine and 

 mix it with bran, or even feed it a little at a time to 

 the chickens, we found it satisfactory to mix it with the 

 bran until it was crumbly and feed it in bulk ; a suffi- 

 cient quantity being gi^cn for the number of chickens 

 in the brooder. Mixing the eggs Avith cracker did not 

 succeed with us as well for ver}' young chicks, although 

 it is fed by others apparently witliout harm. As the 

 chickens grew older meat scraps were substituted. These 

 Avere usually sifted, added to the grain ration, and 

 strewn upon the floor of the brooder. Boiled liver and 

 animal meal were also used, but there was very little 

 difference in the gain of the diiferent chickens when 

 fed upon the animal meal, meat scraps or egg. 



"One mixture of seeds was made as follows, at the 

 suggestion of the poultryman : For chicks from one 

 day to six weeks old : Mix four parts cracked oats, one 

 of fine cracked wheat, two of rolled oats, one-half of 

 millet seed, one-half of broken rice, and two of fine 

 scraps. For the first two weeks we have added one 

 pint of millet seed, leaving out scraps during the first 

 week. Boiled eggs, three for each fifty chicks, have 

 also been fed. After six weeks, and up to ten weeks, 

 feed the following mixture: Mix four parts cracked 

 corn, two of fine cracked corn, one of rolled oats, one- 

 half of millet, one-half of broken rice, one of grit, and 

 two of -scraps. 



"For chicks kept in the colony system give for 

 grain* three parts wheat and four of cracked corn. Also 

 gi^'e the following mash three times per week and daily 

 after ten weeks: Mix one part ground corn, one of 

 ground oats, and one of brown shorts. To feed the meat 

 scraps we made the seed-feed into a mash with boiling 



