38(3 POULTRY PRODUCTION 



they are having only whole wheat and cracked corn. The 

 steel-cut oats are too expensive for long use and the unprepared 

 article is not safe on account of the husks. 



"A mash may be used about the eighth to the tenth day. 

 This may be fed dry or wet. By 'wet' is never meant a 

 sloppy mass, but one which is just sufficiently moistened to 

 make it adhere in lumps or appear crumbly. The difference 

 of opinion in regard to the advantages of these two mashes 

 may be due to the fact that a careless feeder can produce 

 bad results in his chicks by cramming them with mash 

 that is soft and slopp.y and handled with difficulty by the 

 digestive apparatus. If moistened with skim milk the mash 

 wiil be more palatable as well as more nourishing. 



"The mash can be made from various materials, and the 

 two presented below are offered as samples of many that may 

 be equally good: 



I. II. 



3 parts bran 4 parts bran 



2 parts shorts 2 parts alfalfa meal 



1 part coarse corn meal 1 part corn meal 



1 part oat meal J part meat meal 



} part meat meal i part bone meal 



I part bone meal ^ part charcoal 

 I part charcoal 



"One teaspoonful of salt should be added to each couple 

 of gallons of this mixture. The meat meal and alfalfa meal 

 should be sifted so that no coarse particles remain. 



"The above mixtures are suited to chicks that are from 

 ten days to six weeks old. From this time to about the 

 tenth week the meat meal should be gradually increased 

 from one-quarter part to one-half part. From the tenth 

 to fourteenth week another gradual increase should bring 

 the meat meal up to one part in the above formula, which 

 would then be the same as a formula for laying hens. 



"The bone meal should also be increased, but more 

 gradually, so that when the meat meal reaches one part the 

 bone meal amounts to one-half part." 



Card and Kirkpatrick' recommend the following: "On 



' Storr.s (Conn.) Bulletin, No. 96. 



