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pearing to argue in a circle, which is really the case: If a chick is 

 dry, warm, exercised, aired and watered, he is sure to be hungry, 

 and when hungry he will search continually for food ; and thereon 

 hangs the secret of successful brooding. Keep all the conditions 

 such that every chick is exercising for food, and always re- 

 ceiving a reward for its pains, from dawn to dark. 



Table XXVL — Rations and Methods of Feeding Chicks Recommended 

 BY Poultry Department of Cornell University 

 The Ration The Method 



Mixture No. I One to Five Days 



8 pounds rolled oats. Mixture No. i, moistened with sour 



8 pounds bread-crumbs or skimmed milk, fed five times a day; 



cracker waste. Mixture No. 2 in shallow tray containing 



2 pounds sifted meat scrap a little of No. 3 (dry) always before 



(best grade). chicks. Shredded green food and fine 



I pound bone meal. grit and- charcoal scattered over food. 



Mixture No. 2 

 3 pounds wheat (cracked). 

 2 pounds cracked corn (fine). 

 I pound pinhead oatmeal. 



Five Days to Two Weeks 

 No. 2 in light litter twice a day; No. 3 

 moistened with sour skimmed milk, fed 

 three times a day; No. 3 (dry) always 

 available. 



Mixture No. 3 

 3 pounds wheat bran. 

 3 pounds corn meal. 

 3 pounds wheat middlings. 

 3 pounds meat scrap (best 

 grade). 



1 pound bone meal. 



Mixture No. 4 

 3 pounds wheat (whole). 



2 pounds cracked corn. 

 I pound hulled oats. 



Mixture No. 5 



3 pounds wheat. 

 3 pounds cracked corn. 



Two to Four Weeks 

 ,As above, except that the moist mash is 

 given twice a day. 



Four to Six Weeks {until Chicks are on 

 Range) 

 Reduce meals of moist mash to one a day; 

 Mixture No. 4 in litter twice a day; dry 

 mash always available. 



Six Weeks to Maturity 

 No. 3 and No. 5 hopper fed. One meal a 

 day of moist mash if it is desired to 

 hasten development. 



Further instructions: Provide fine grit, charcoal, oyster shells and bone 

 from the start. Give grass range or plenty of green food. Keep chickens 

 active by allowing them to become hungry once daily. 



The incubator chick is born with just as many instincts as the 

 chick hatched under a hen, it is just as sturdy if the period of in- 



