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wheat cracks better than Russian Red. After the first week feed 

 granulated corn or corn grits to the chick-feed. Turkey Red 

 the chicks plenty of green feed, also feed green feed to hens, as it 

 saves from one-quarter to one-third of your feed bill and it puts 

 color in the chicks' and hens' legs, etc. 



Feed no meat to chicks. Never feed meat to chicks that 

 have indigestion. If their digestion is good they can be fed 

 meat at any time, but it is probably better to wait for four 

 weeks or so before giving them any meat, then gradually add 

 5% of meat, but you must watch the droppings very closely 

 to see if it causes bowel-trouble. If it causes yellow bowel- 

 trouble do not use it. Try again a month or so later. If 

 your hens are in good condition use about 5 to 8% of meat 

 in this ration or use Ration No. 9. If your hens have indi- 

 gestion do not use any meat in this mash, at first, because it 

 will pass through the hen undigested and will be thrown off 

 in the form of bowel-trouble and will do the hen more harm 

 than good. I have had, hens in this condition lay without 

 meat where they could not be made to lay with meat, but you 

 must be ready to add the meat when needed. The non-laying 

 hens with indigestion cannot eat meat like the laying hen 

 with good digestion. 



Feed five quarts of grain a day to 100 hens — equal parts of 

 Russian Red wheat and-whole yellow corn, and there may be 

 times when hens have some kinds of bowel-trouble that it 

 would be better to feed equal parts of wheat, oats and corn. 



Sometimes with a ration like No. 9 where one-third of corn- 

 meal is used it cannot be fed to chicks or hens, as it makes 

 them sick; now add three parts more bran to Ration No. 9 

 and you get Ration No. 14. After feeding Ration No. 14 for a 

 few days the droppings should be stiff, brown in color and 

 the end tipped with white. This is what you want. This is 

 caused by the Turkey Red bran. Ration No. 9 sometimes 



