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month, when they can safely leave mother and run 

 with the rest. 



The second week we can add bits of bread, boiled 

 potato, and dry mash to their diet, whUe we double 

 their ration of scratch grain. The dry mash 

 should be three parts bran, one part com meal, 

 and one part good beef scraps. Feed a cupful of 

 this for a flock of ten chickens in a little hopper, 

 or long tray, during the afternoon. A tray made 

 of three laths, nailed together, serves well for 

 this. 



Do not stop feeding rolled oats during this time. 

 The other feed wiU form the addition needed to 

 fiU their crops as the chickens grow, but the rolled 

 oats should form the basis of diet for three weeks. 

 Feathers sprout evenly and quickly on a flock fed 

 with rolled oats, and this is a result greatly to be 

 desired. 



Gr^en Stuff. — During the first week, chickens 

 pay little attention to green stuff, and need little 

 of it, but after that they crave it and should have it. 

 Tender grass, cut short, is good. Tough grass, cut 

 long, is deadly. Clover, cut short, lettuce, beet 

 greens, and other tender leaves, are excellent. 

 They want these greens fresh. There is no fear 



