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with scalded milk; then, morning, excelsior meal bread and scalded milk; 10 A. M., 
granulated corn; 2 P. M., excelsior meal bread and scalded milk; 6 P. M., canary seed, 
millet seed, granulated corn. After two weeks a varied diet, two soft feeds alternating 
with two hard feeds, excelsior meal bread frequently given, and morning mash often 
mixed with meat or in broth of meat; green food fed regularly. 
Excelsior Meal—grind together 20 lbs. corn, 15 lbs. oats, 10 lbs. barley; add 10 lbs. 
wheat bran. To make cakes: take,— one quart sour milk or buttermilk, add a little salt 
‘and molasses, a quart of water, a heaping teaspocn saleratus; thicken with the meal, a 
little thicker than batter for corn cakes; bake in shallow pans. 
(25). Ration for Chicks for Stock.— (Lamsert).— Corn, wheat, oats, equal parts, 
ground; mix with milk, bake; feed all they will eat five times a day, at three hour 
intervals. After four weeks alternate with cracked corn, crushed wheat, etc. Use whole 
corn and wheat as soon as it is eaten easily. If milk cannot be obtained for johnnycake, 
mix alternately with desiccated fish and animal meal. 
(26). Ration for Chicks on Range.— (Mrs. THomas).—Warm mash (same as for 
old fowls), in the morning; millet where they can get it all day long; whole wheat at 
night; night feed varied occasionally by using other grains. 
(27). Rations for Chicks, for Stock Birds on Limited Range or in Roomy 
Yards.— Winter.— Morning,— mash as for old fowls (714); 9 A. M., baked cake of corn 
chop and house scraps, made as follows: add a little soda to sour milk; throw in the 
scraps, finely broken; stir in the chop to make a very stiff batter. (The stiffer the better. 
Thin batter takes longer to bake, and bakes with a thicker, tougher crust); bake in deep 
pans, well greased. Feed the heart of this cake in chunks, the crust crumbled or cut in a 
bone cutter. Feed cake again at 11.30 A. M. and 2.30 P. M. At dusk feed whole wheat. 
Give both milk and water to drink, boiling the milk if there are symptoms of looseness 
of the bowels. Summer.—5.30 A. M., mash; 7.30 A. M., green food, lettuce or cabbage; 
9 A. M., corn cake; 11 A. M., millet; 2 P. M., corn cake; 4 P. M., corn cake, meat, or 
green food; 6 to 7 P. M., whole wheat, all they will eat, followed by corn either cracked 
or whole. (It will be found that chicks after eating their fill of one kind of food will 
shortly, if given the opportunity, stuff themselves on another. It will not hurt them in 
the least to do this in zke evening, and this method of feeding can be made very effective 
in forcing growth). 
(28). Rations for Chicks on Good (Orchard) Range.— Mash (as in (%15)), 5.30 
A. M.; cracked corn, 9.30 A. M.; cracked corn, whole wheat, or mash, 2 P. M.; cracked 
corn,6 P.M. 
147. Good Feeding Requires Skill—No matter how thorough a 
‘* book knowledge” one may have of the properties of foods and the principles 
of feeding, no matter hew familiar he may be with accepted formulas for 
correct feeding, or how closely he may follow a good system of feeding, he 
finds that good feeding depends finally on Skitz. Skill is acquired only 
through practice. Skill in feeding is not merely mechanical. It depends on 
a judgment trained to observe, closely and without conscious effort, the 
appearances of fowls, to note beginnings of departures from normal growing 
or producing conditions, and to decide, as if by instinct, how to preserve or 
restore the health of the fowls. 
