100 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



those same chicks the right food and in a few days they will 

 begin to grow and come to life. The same thing occurs 

 with a flock of hens. They change from sickly hens that 

 you are ashamed of to a vigorous, healthy flock that lays 

 and pays and a flock that you are proud of. 



On examining some corn it may appear good, but if you 

 will grind it up fine and eat a little you will find that it will 

 leave a bitter taste in your mouth and on feeding it to chicks 

 they will not do good. 



You can use some grades of corn-meal made especially 

 for table use and get good results feeding it to chicks, but 

 other grades of table corn-meal, although it is nice and 

 yellow, not bitter, it seems to be flat in flavor and may pro- 

 duce the grayish white droppings when fed to chicks and 

 hens from which many die. It must be responsible for a 

 large amount of disease in the human family, for a food 

 that kills chicks must not be very good for humans. If you 

 cannot get a good grade of old corn, get a good grade of 

 corn grits, as they are the very best grade of corn, grind 

 them fine and use them. Test corn by its appearance, the 

 flavor, but the best test is the chicks' digestive organs. Man 

 has never yet fooled those. With some grades of mill-feeds 

 and corn you can feed most any ration successfully, but with 

 most feeds you cannot do so, as you chicks or hens will die. 

 When you see a receipt given out similar to those given you, 

 you can make up your mind that 90% of the users of those 

 receipts are going to have trouble feeding them, because they 

 do not know how greatly grains vary. 



I have used many hundred similar receipts, having good 

 success one time and securing poor results the next. If you 

 are having success with similar rations be sure you know 

 exactly the kind and grades of those grains and stick to them. 

 If your ration is right feed the same thing always, never 



