32 Hubbard's poultry secrets. 



You will find that in from three to five days you will have 

 the best chick feed that it is possible to get and one that is 

 much relished by the chicks. 



You not only get full value of the meat of the oats, but you 

 get a great many tender roots and sprouts also. For their 

 noon feed you should dig up some of the sprouted oats, dirt 

 and all, and give them just as much as they will clean up. 

 They will scratch and dig the sod to pieces and pick out every 

 oat and root in it. You will find that the dirt which sticks to 

 the roots of the oats is very good for the chicks, in fact, it 

 keeps all the digestive organs in perfect working order. This 

 way of sprouting oats is far ahead of any other method. 



If sprouting them in a box, which is the old method, you 

 must be very careful that the box is clean and sweet, or the 

 oats will sour and get slimy and will cause trouble by feeding. 



Their next feed should be at three o'clock. It should con- 

 sist of cracked com thrown in the litter, and should never be 

 more than they will clean up. At six o'clock they should be 

 given mash the same as used in the morning, but instead of 

 half a feed they should be fed all they can eat. Be sure to 

 make their last feed the heaviest feed of the day, so that it 

 will carry them through the night. 



