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The chicks of these larger varieties should have, in addition to the 

 food already described, a considerable amount of oat meal which may 

 be boiled or made into oat cakes. The chicks will relish this for a 

 change. Bear in mind that your object Is to keep them growing, but 

 growing in the right way. Keep them busy every minute. Nefer 

 allow them to "hump up" and mope. A brief set back is enough to 

 turn a promising chick into a worthless cull. Therefore keep them 

 growing. 



The secret of feeding for eggs is easily mastered. Have your 

 pullets butter fat when they go into the laying house. Remember 

 that it is as impossible to get figs from thistles as eggs from a scrawny, 

 half-starved bird. 



In feeding for "commercial" eggs it is necessary to give food that 

 will induce laying in the late fall and early winter when eggs com- 

 mand top prices. 'For this purpose foods rich in animal protein, 

 blended with the right amount of carbon — like com for instance — must 

 be supplied. The "standard" foods — wheat, oats, corn and barley — 

 were formerly used, exclusively. Then som.ebody began feeding a 

 "wet" mash, made up of bran, middlings and so forth, and mixed 

 with water. This produced "results" by increasing the egg yield. 

 It likewise produced, in many cases, disastrous results — ^^causing bowel 

 trouble — especially when vegetable protein was used — getting birds 

 "off their feed" and out of condition generally. 



A mash food is necessary. A wet mash is unnecessary. In our 

 laying tests with various breeds we have produced remarkable results 

 with never an ounce of wet mash. 



One method of feeding whereby such records as 1,321 eggs laid 

 by six Partridge Rocks in one year, 1,215 by six Leghorns, 1,165 by 

 six Reds, and 863 by four White Rocks — each in one year — was as 

 follows : 



