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they can eat, and I wish you could see them grow. It 

 is a pleasure to raise chickens this way where sickness 

 is scarcely known. 



After three weeks, change from chick food to a 

 good quality of wheat screenings which must also be 

 kept before them from then on as long as you own 

 them ; or better still, I have a screening feed which I 

 sell for $25 per ton, free on board, Buffalo, which is the 

 finest feed for hopper feeding I have ever yet seen. It 

 gives great results, for I am using it entirely for my 

 layers in place of wheat screenings. It is giving 

 grand results, and I know of nothing that can in any- 

 way compare with it for growing young chicks, and 

 nothing so cheap as this screening feed and processed 

 oats. 



After three days old, your chicks should always 

 have before them grit, charcoal, beef scraps, chick 

 food until yoti change for wheat screenings or screen- 

 ing feed, and water to drink — and good, clean, fresh 

 water is very important — in fact thousand^ of chick- 

 ens are lost every year through dirt}' water and filthy 

 drinking dishes, as disease starts in the drinking foun- 

 tains in many cases. 



If your fountains are not kept clean, and if you are 

 not particular and wash out your fountains every time 

 you fill them, slime collects on the inside, and I con- 

 sider this rank poison to the chickens. 



The best fountain you can get is the two piece 

 earthen fountain, which keeps the water cool and 

 clean. I would not use any other kind under any cir- 

 cumstances. If you can yard your little chicks on a 

 stream of water, so much the better, and much Habor 

 is saved. 



W'hen your little chicks are first put out, they 

 should be looked after several times a day, and you 

 must see that they do not get chilled. 



Keep your brooder at 95 degrees first five days, 

 then it should be lowered to go degrees. After two 

 weeks to 85 degrees, and after three weeks to 80 de- 

 grees and gradually harden them off, depending on the 



