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and a small part of animal meal. This cake is made with' 

 sour milk, seasoned witli salt and a little baking sodi is 

 added to keep it from being too heavy. It is baked until 

 well done and fed dry. As soon as the chickens are large 

 enough to eat cracked corn and whole wheat (about two 

 weeks old) we keep inorjasing this food and decreaiing 

 the rolled oats and cake. 



Do not forget to keep your chicks in a dry place; do not 

 forget to give them sand, grit and fresh water; do not let 

 the older ones eat with the young ones, as they will get all 

 the food and are liable to trample the smaller ones; do not 

 think this is the only way to raise chickens, as you may 

 have food and conditions over which you can judge better 

 for yourself. GHve your chickens as free range as possible 

 and about October 1st separate the cockerels from the pul- 

 lets and get them into winter quarters as soon as possible. 



"W. A. CONGDON, Illinois. 



Dry Ctrains, Lota of G-rit and Oool Water— Keep Them Free 

 from Iiice auA Dampness. 



I have had the best success by feeding dry grains and 

 plenty of grit and cool, clean water. Chicks require no food 

 the first twenty-fo.ur hours, and very little the next -twenty- 

 four. The first feed should consist of a very little millet, 

 some fine grit and water. The latter should be so placed 

 that, it will be always cool and so that the chicks are unable 

 tc get into it to wet and chill themselves or soil the water. 

 I feed a mixlare of wheat, steel cut oats, millet and plenty 

 of fine, sharp grit, five or six times a day for the first week, 

 four or five the second w^ek, and finally when about a 

 month old, feed them only three times a day, and wien six 

 weeks to two months old or'y twice a day. 



Now begin to give the«J coarse ground or cracked corn, 

 dry, and they are able to stand any kind of sound food, as 

 for instance, table scraps if not too sloppy or greasy, onion 

 tops or other raw vegetables, chopped fine, so that they can 

 eat them more easily. From now on they should do nicely 



if f-ed regularly a variety of sound food and given clean, 

 dry quarters, free from vermin to roost in. Care should be 

 exercised in the quantity of food and the manner in which 

 it is given. It is better to scatter all food, so that the 

 chicks will. hive to scratch and hunt for it and to feed only 

 as much as they will eat up clean for if too much is given 

 at once, they will gorge themselves, which tends to make 

 them lazy and brings on bowel complaints^ nor will they 

 take enough exercise. I do not believe thdt chicks will 

 drink too much pure, cool water, if it is kept before them 

 all the tim«, although some authorities maintain that water 

 should only be given young chicks right after they are fed. 



Neither old nor young fowls can stand dampness and! 

 probably a greater number of early chicks are lost on this 

 account, rather than from lack of proper food and care. 

 Would advise that chicks .be kept in floored coops at night 

 until the ground is thoroughly dry, or until they are at least 

 a month old. Many people make the mistake of putting too 

 many chicks together .after they are weaned and as they 

 grow BO fast they are soon crowded, before one has time to 

 realize some of them do not appear to do well, and thus 

 many a good bird amounts to nothing either for the market 

 or the show room. Chicks of all ages should not be run to- 

 gether, if it is possible to avoid it, and all sizes should have 

 Jlenty of shade and a grassy range, although they will do 

 well' in a bare yard if kept clean and judiciously supplied 

 with green food of one kind or another. Lice of many 

 kinds ara the worst foes of the poultryman, and in this case 

 prevention is worth more than an unlimited amount of cure. 



Clean the houses thoroughly each spring and fall, keep 

 them clean between times. Whitewash the inside at least, 

 and put coal oil on the roosts once a month or oftenw. 

 There are many good liquid and powder vermin kUlers on 

 th« market, but the former must be used with great caution, 

 if at all, on -chicks. There are certainly several, successful 

 ways of raising chicks, but they all contain as essentials, 

 cleanliness, regularity, good judgment and perseverance. 



J. A. LELAND, Ulinois. 



JAte on the Reliable Poultry Farm. 



