CHAPTER XIV 



METHODS WITH GROWING STOCK 



After the fifth week, if we have a yard where 

 they can range about, it will be a simple matter to 

 care for the chicks. The wire run is laid aside. 

 If there is an intermediate house like the paper 

 house described in the chapter on that subject, we 

 can lay the coop aside also, but if the flock is no 

 more than twenty or thirty, they can go on well 

 enough in the coops where they were bom, for sleep- 

 ing quarters. 



Plenty of fresh water must be kept in a cool, 

 shady spot. In the morning a pint of mixed 

 scratch grain' — cracked com, oats, and wheat, in 

 equal parts, or any high-grade commercial scratch 

 grain — to each dozen chickens, should be scat- 

 tered round the yard, which should never get hard 

 and smooth. If it does, dig it up with a fork or 

 shovel. 



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