REARING CHICKS AFTER BROODING AGE 
intended for breeding purposes should be fed 
those foods which will induce a normal, healthy 
Feeding Par- growth without any of the evils of 
tially Matured forcing. Whole wheat is probably 
Chicks better than any other one grain, but a 
variety is more than. desirable—it is essential. 
Cracked corn is the most fattening, and consid- 
erable should be fed, as growing chicks always 
have a decided natural tendency toward “ lean- 
ness.” Wheat middlings are also very good, and 
chicks greatly relish them; in fact, I find that of the 
numerous feeds kept before our growing stock in 
self-feeding hoppers, more middlings are usually 
required than of any other one feed. Of course, it 
is placed in the hoppers dry, the same as any grain 
would be. The best feeds to be kept before the 
growing stock are wheat, oats, cracked corn, mid- 
dlings, a prepared commercial mixture of various 
grain feeds for large chicks, beef scraps, grit, and 
charcoal. See that the chicks get all they will eat 
of these feeds, because ordinarily the more they eat 
the more rapidly they will develop. 
How to Feed Broilers. Chicks to be marketed 
as broilers should be hurried along more rapidly 
than chicks intended for breeders, so that they can 
be marketed at the earliest moment possible and 
the profits will be greater. After the chicks have 
been given a good start in life by the dry-feed sys- 
tem, the breeder may hasten their growth during 
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