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see what a nice variety of feed you can obtain from the three 

 grains mentioned above. Thus we have whole grains, cracked 

 grains, ground grains, and sprouted grains. By properly 

 mixing this variety of feed, we get better results than can be 

 obtained by feeding any other variety of grains. 



Now, my dear readers, I want to impress on your minds 

 that it is not what a chicken eats, but what it digests, that 

 counts. If we keep digestion good, we can get very rapid 

 growth, but if we over-tax the digestive organs we will throw 

 the whole system out of order and the chick's growth will be 

 checked. The liver will become effected, the crops will be 

 filled with a watery, slimy substance, and later the bowels will 

 be loose. If these conditions exist the chickens will have what 

 is called white diarrhea, for which there has never yet been 

 found a successful remedy. 



I don't think there is a poultryman that has given more 

 study to the cause of the dreaded white diarrhea than I have, 

 and I have proven to my own satisfaction that seventy-five per 

 cent, of all white diarrhea is caused by the man or woman 

 that carries the feed pail. The majority of methods advise 

 feeding baby chicks from six to eight times a day on this or 

 that brand of prepared chick feed, which they claim is made 

 up of a variety of six or eight different kinds of cracked grains 

 and seeds properly balanced. For best results, I find that this 

 method of feeding baby chicks is very unsatisfactory, as I do 

 not think it is following nature closely enough. I do not think 

 that nature ever intended that a baby chick should be fed on 

 hard, dried grains, any more than a newly born baby was in- 

 tended to be fed on beef steak. 



Why, then, do I not use the inethod described above, which 

 is used by so many poultrymen ? I will try to answer that 

 question and explain my system, in such a way, that I think 

 you will see it as I do. 



