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cleaned up your feed and are acting like old stagers. If 

 so, give them another light scattering. You want to get 

 them all to eating and drinking as fast as ever you can. 

 Some of them will still stand around and "chup," and 

 will go to sleep that way, without taking feed or water 

 the first day. They will cry at intervals throughout the 

 night. If you are patient and wish to bother with it, find 

 the owner of the voice you hear and give him a drink. 

 The writer has gotten out of bed many a time because 

 he could not stand the crying voices and after making 

 a few chaps happy with a drink has in all probability 

 not only saved chicks from starvation but made his own 

 night more comfortable. This is the "personal element" 

 we hear so much about in connection with the conduct of 

 any line of business, like the storekeeper who goes to 

 the store especially to accommodate some good customer. 



Should your chicks arrive in the morning, so that they 

 have had their first feed and water before noon, leave 

 them until about 2 o'clock; at that hour give them another 

 light scattering of feed and tilt the water fountains again 

 so that the water is up to the edge of the saucer. Keep 

 the water at as high a level in the saucer as you can 

 throughout the day. At 4 o'clock give them another 

 feed and at this time replenish the fountains, using water 

 from which the chill has been taken (by adding a little 

 hot water). The easiest way to refill the fountains is to 

 carry in two buckets, one filled with water, the other 

 empty. Empty the fountain into the second bucket, then 

 dip it into the fresh bucket, fit the saucer over it, reverse 

 it, and set it down. You will have to move very cau- 

 tiously, "feeling your way" amongst the chicks with your 



