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granulated bone or bone meal. These articles are inexpensive 

 and they will last a long time. The charcoal acts as an absorbent 

 and aids digestion ; it serves to keep the crop sweet. Granulated 

 bone is rich in nitrogenous matter and makes bone and muscle; 

 it keeps the chicks sturdy. 



Table XXIV. — Feeding Rations for Chicks Recommended by the 

 Indiana Experiment Station 

 Scratch Grains Dry Mash 



Pounds Pounds 



Cracked corn (sifted) lo Wheat bran lo 



Wheat (cracked) lo Middlings lO 



Oats 10 Corn meal 5 



Meat scrap 5 



Charcoal 2.5 



Plenty of sour milk or buttermilk to drink. If milk is not available, the 

 meat scrap may be increased to 15 pounds in the mash. Scratch grains are 

 fed in litter from the first. The mash is supplied in a hopper when the chicks 

 are five to seven days old. 



Table XXV. — Feeding Rations for Chicks Recommended by the 

 California Experiment Station 



Scratch Grains Pounds 



Wheat 20 



Oats (steel cut) '. . . 15 



Millet 5 



Rice 2 



Cracked corn 6 



Grit 10 



Charcoal 5 



Bone meal 5 



The ingredients are crushed to the size of millet. The mixture is fed from 

 the first. Toward the end of the second week the cracked wheat and oats are 

 increased until by the sixth or seventh week these two grains have replaced all 

 others, except the cracked corn. From the seventh week on the grains con- 

 sist of cracked corn and wheat. A mash is given after the eighth day, con- 

 sisting of either of the following mixtures: 



Mash Mixture I Mash Mixture II 



Pounds Pounds 



Bran (wheat) 3 Bran (wheat) 4 



Middlings 2 Alfalfa meal 2 



Corn meal (coarse) i Corn meal (coarse) l 



Oatmeal i Meat meal }4 



Meat meal }4 Bone meal }4 



Bone meal }4 Charcoal }4 



Charcoal ^ 



One teaspoonful of salt is added to each gallon of either mixture. The 

 mixtures are intended for chicks from ten days old to six weeks. After this 

 the meat meal and the bone meal should be increased gradually, until the meal 

 equals one pound of the ration and the bone meal a half pound. 



