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older, they are not fed so often, and at a month old, 

 fi\'e feeds a day is sufficient. At each feeding, fresh, 

 clean water is given. — [Mrs. 0. G. Ford, Charles City 

 County, "\'a. 



After the chicks are tweuty-four hours old I begin 

 to feed crushed ^\■heat and some grit, ^\'hen four or 

 five days old they get some cake made from middlings 

 and corn m.eal. At iive or six weeks I give a little 

 animal meal or scraps. I keep fresh water constantly 

 before them in small earthenware fountains. I also 

 use a cake made from American poultry food and one- 

 fourth corn meal. In addition to the above I give 

 them the lawn clippings and ■\\'aste fruit. They are fed 

 five or six times a day. — [John M. Harrington, Middle- 

 sex Count}'', Mass. 



Our three favorite artieles of diet for chicks are 

 bread crumbs, millet seed and oatmeal, and of the two 

 latter commodities we buy in quantities expressly for 

 the season's work in the poultry world part of the farm. 

 Millet seed at thirty cents per bushel becomes an inex- 

 pensive part of their living; ten bushels or more of this 

 seed is yearly put safely awa}'- for this purpose, for the 

 young broods as they come from nests and incubators. 

 Oatmeal is purchased by the barrel, lessening the 

 expense very materially as compared with the price of 

 it when bought by the pound or "quarter's worth." 

 Eolled oats we have come to look upon with suspicion, 

 as we have noted occasional bad results from feeding it. 

 It becomes pasty in the crop if a meal is made of it 

 exclusively, and thus becomes to an extent indigestible. 

 We now use the steel cut oatmeal, or what is sometimes 

 designated "the pinhead oatmeal." It is clean, sharp 

 cut, free from flour and much relished by the chicks 

 and they thrive amazingly upon it. The barrel of oat- 

 meal just purchased, 200 pounds, cost $4.50. This will 

 doubtless be more than sufficient for the season, fed, 



