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you can feed them all they can possibly eat of the right food 

 and cure them. A ration without one-fourth corn is a very 

 poor ration. There are some kinds of feeds that cause a 

 large white dropping free from bowel-trouble, but I do not 

 know what they are. 



Every ration I have given and hundreds of similar rations 

 will cause trouble. Bran and corn are the principal feeds 

 that you must watch, for there are many variations to the 

 qualities of corn. By eating a little corn-meal you will 

 notice that it is sweet and wholesome, while other grades will 

 leave a bitter taste in your mouth. 



The reason that you get varying results from the same 

 ration and the reason I have had trouble with these rations 

 at different times is on account of the mill-feeds varying. 

 With a good grade of corn and some grades of brans you 

 can feed Rations Nos. 1, 7, 9, 10, 12 and 13 and get good 

 results, but unless you have these grades you will have 

 trouble and your chicks will die and your hens also. There 

 is the reason so many people meet with failure. You get 

 a receipt that call for a large amount of corn; you use it 

 one time and get good results but the next time your chicks 

 die and your hens get bowel-trouble. The reason you can 

 feed, say Ration No. 13, for instance, and raise 95% of your 

 chicks is that your bran, middlings and corn are of the right 

 grade. Your chicks all live and grow very fast, but next 

 time your grains are not the same, bowel-trouble results, 

 the chick gets no nourishment from the food, they get weak, 

 thin and die. You will get the same result from every ration 

 under those conditions. With some grades of corn your 

 hens will get grayish white droppings, etc., and your chicks 

 get dumpy, stand around and the only parts of them that 

 grow is the upper bill, breast bone and the wings. These 

 hang down and some foolish people cut them off. Feed 



