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white-diarrhoea, as it contains too much bran. More corn 

 and middlings would be much better. This is the disease that 

 kills millions of chicks annually. This is the disease of which 

 learned experts say, in order to prevent it, to wash your 

 eggs in a solution and spray the incubators in order to kill 

 the germ. The truth is that this disease is caused by a poor 

 grade of corn, too much corn, or a combination of corn and 

 mill-feeds and there are many other combinations of food 

 that cause it. Many people are advertising drugs to cure 

 this disease, and are making money through cleverly-worded 

 advertisements. Through clever advertising the manufac- 

 turers of a certain incubator built up one of the largest busi- 

 nesses in America and the main point to which they invited 

 attention, was the biggest kind of a fraud. But it was done 

 so cleverly that 90% of the users of these machines have 

 never discovered this yet. 



I have shown you how to produce white-diarrhoea, but 

 you must remember the conditions — indigestion, watery drop- 

 pings and plenty of corn, and corn-meal of poor grade and 

 a combination such as I have given you. If you tried this 

 with chicks in good condition you may not get this result 

 and if you tried this with a very good grade of corn and 

 corn-meal it may not occur, although I believe it will under 

 those conditions with any grade of corn. With a good mash 

 you can sometimes put down in front of chicks all the corn 

 and wheat they will eat without harming them. 



Good wheat, corn and oats are to a chick what good milk 

 is to a baby. Poor corn is death to chicks, poor milk is 

 death to babies. You may fool a baby with poor milk and 

 you can fool the baby chick with poor corn, but fool their 

 digestive organs — never. Babies have no commercial value, 

 but baby chicks have. They are worth about ten cents each. 

 Remember feed them good corn. 



