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in the afternoon. The mash is left before them 

 for only a short time at first, but as they develop it 

 is left longer, and by the time they are eight or ten 

 weeks old they have access to it at all times. 



Cornell Mash. — At Cornell the first five days 

 the chicks are given the following mixture, moist- 

 ened with sour skimmed milk, five times a day: 

 Eight pounds rolled oats, eight pounds bread 

 crumbs or cracker waste, two pounds sifted beef 

 scrap, one pound bone meal. The grain mixture, 

 three pounds cracked wheat, two pounds cracked 

 corn, one pound steel cut oats, is kept before them in 

 a little tray. A little of the following dry mash, 

 which after the fifth day is always before them in 

 a hopper, is mixed with the grain in this tray: 

 Three pounds bran, three pounds corn meal, three 

 pounds middlings, three pounds beef scrap, one 

 pound bone meal. From five days to two weeks 

 they have the grain mixture in litter twice a day, 

 the moist mash of the first five days three times 

 a day, and the dry mash always before them. From 

 two to four weeks the moist mash is given but twice 

 a day and from four to six weeks but once a day. 

 After four weeks the grain ration is changed to 

 three pounds whole wheat, two pounds cracked corn, 

 one pound hulled oats. Grit, charcoal, shell and 

 bone are always before them and green feed is given 

 freely scattered over the moist mash or separately. 



Maine Ration. — At the Maine Station several 

 satisfactory rations have been used, the one best 

 liked being as follows : First two days, hard-boiled 

 eggs mixed with six times their bulk of rolled oats. 

 From the third day on the rolled oats and egg mix- 

 ture is fed at nine o'clock and at half past four or 

 five o'clock. Early in the morning and at half past 

 twelve they have the following grain mixture, fed 



