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Any time during the day see that green food is 

 provided. 



About noon another pint of scratch grain should 

 be scattered. , 



At the same time a hopper of dry mash, — two 

 parts wheat bran, one part com meal, one part 

 red middlings, and one part good beef scraps, 

 should be opened. ' 



The hopper of dry mash, opened about noon, for 

 chickens kept under the conditions of the average 

 household, is important. If the family are out 

 and late in returning, the chickens do not go sujDper- 

 less to bed. If John or Susie should, by any 

 chance, forget to come home from play in time to 

 "feed the chickens, " no great harm is done. They 

 can help themselves from the dry mash box when 

 they get hungry. In fact many growers depend 

 on this dry mash entirely, with the cracked grain. 



An evening meal, however, of the same mash, 

 moistened, but not sloppy, with warm water as 

 the days get cool, is a distinct advantage. We can 

 mix in this the table scraps, such as bread, vege- 

 tables, and bits of meat. After chickens have had 

 dry mash before them all afternoon they will rush 

 at a trough of wet mash and fill up "fit to bust." 



