Chickens Birds 
is best fed as a dry mash in a hopper and is suitable 
food to keep constantly before the chicks until they 
are pretty well grown. Mixture No. 2 is suitable 
for feeding in light litter after the first week. 
CARE 
Chickens should have access continually to pure, 
clean water. Perhaps the easiest way to accomplish 
this is to fill a milk bottle, or a quart Mason jar to 
the very brim with water, and invert it in a little pan 
or saucer. The water should be changed in this 
every day and the saucer cleaned. By this arrange- 
ment water only comes into the saucer for drinking 
purposes, and the chickens do not get wet, as when a 
pan of water is given them. Watch the water dish 
in the winter, and see that it does not become frozen. 
It is absolutely necessary that the chickens take a 
great deal of exercise, and this should be in a dry 
place. A movable coop with a run, which may be 
made by fastening chicken wire above and along the 
sides of a framework of two-inch material, works 
well. In this case the coop itself and the runway 
may be moved about to fresh ground. The food for 
little chickens should be thrown into the litter, so as 
to teach them to scratch for it, and thus be sure that 
they will take exercise. A dust bath is necessary 
for the health of the chickens. This is best made of 
equal parts of land plaster and coal ashes. Fine dust 
from the road is good. Dust should be kept in a dry 
portion of the yard in boxes, so that it will not be- 
come too much scattered. 
REFERENCES 
Tue Pouttry Book, Harrison Weir. 
“On Domesticated Birds,’ DomeEstTicaTeD ANIMALS, N. S. 
Shaler. 
Ovurtpoor Work, M. R. Miller. 
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