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pearing to argue in a circle, which is really the case: If a chick is 

 dry, warm, exercised, aired and watered, he is sure to be hungry, 

 and when hungry he will search continually for food ; and thereon 

 hangs the secret of successful brooding. Keep all the conditions 

 such that every chick is exercising for food, and always re- 

 ceiving a reward for its pains, from dawn to dark. 



Table XXVL — Rations and Methods of Feeding Chicks Recommended 

 BY Poultry Department of Cornell University 



The Ration The Method 



Mixture No. l 

 8 pounds rolled oats. 

 8 pounds bread-crumbs or 

 cracker waste. 



2 pounds sifted meat scrap 



(best grade). 



1 pound bone meal. 



Mixture No. 2 



3 pounds wheat (cracked). 



2 pounds cracked corn (fine). 

 I pound pinhead oatmeal. 



Mixture No. j 

 3 pounds wheat bran. 

 3 pounds corn meal. 

 3 pounds wheat middlings. 

 3 pounds meat scrap (best 

 grade). 



1 pound bone meal. 



Mixture No. 4 

 3 pounds wheat (whole). 



2 pounds cracked corn. 

 I pound hulled oats. 



Mixture No. 5 



3 pounds wheat. 

 3 poimds cracked corn. 



One to Five Days 

 Mixture No. i, moistened with sour 

 skimmed milk, fed five times a day; 

 Mixture No. 2 in shallow traycontaining 

 a little of No. 3 (dry) always before 

 chicks. Shredded green food and fine 

 grit and charcoal scattered over food. 



Five Days to Two Weeks 

 No. 2 in light litter twice a day; No. 3 

 moistened with sour skimmed milk, fed 

 three times a day; No. 3 (dry) always 

 available. 



Two to Four Weeks 

 .As above, except that the moist mash is 

 given twice a day. 



Four to Six Weeks {until Chicks are on 

 Range) 

 Reduce meals of moist mash to one a day; 

 Mixture No. 4 in litter twice a day; dry 

 mash always available. 



5i» Weeks to Maturity 

 N(i. 3 and No. 5 hopper fed. One meal a 

 day of moist mash if it is desired to 

 hasten development. 



Further instructions: Provide fine grit, charcoal, oyster shells and bone 

 from the start. Give grass range or plenty of green food. Keep chickens 

 active by allowing them to become hungry once daily. 



The incubator chick is born with just as many instincts as the 

 chick hatched under a hen, it is just as sturdy if the period of in- 



