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will thrive on it, and the mortality will, in most cases, 

 be confined to the weak ones. 



Corn Not Proper Chick Food 



In past decades, wet corn meal seemed to be about 

 the standard ration which the chicks were fed on by 

 the farmer's wife, and in fact this practice has not 

 yet entirely gone out. Naturally, it brought about a 

 large mortality which everyone deplored but could not 

 understand. Corn in any form was never intended for 

 a chick to eat, but when you place it before them in 

 the form of meal, and this made into a sloppy mass, 

 the wonder is, not at the largeness of the mortality, 

 but rather that any of them live at all. 



But the advance in Poultry Culture has brought 

 about feeding of whole grains, to a large extent. For 

 years the proper feeding of chicks, even on farms 

 with modern brooding equipment, has been a stum- 

 bling block, causing serious loss, and, in many in- 

 stances, failure, to those attempting to raise chickens 

 either in large or small numbers. 



Follow Nature's Teaching 



In Poultry Culture, in order to succeed it is essen- 

 tial to study Nature, to find out how the hen in a 

 wild state cares for her brood, and then bring the ar- 

 tificial conditions as near to Nature as possible. In 

 almost every chick food put on the market the main 

 ingredient, namely corn, was never intended for a 



