PROPAGATION 
incubator may be used for this purpose. 
You may continue this ration for a few 
days, gradually replacing it with cracked 
wheat and corn or cracked wheat and 
Kafir-corn; or you may replace it with 
some of the best commercial chick foods 
on the market. 
Whatever you feed, it must be fed 
very sparingly for the first six weeks of: 
the chicks’ lives. Remember always that 
a small amount of food well digested and 
assimilated is very many times better 
than a large amount poorly digested. 
Don’t overfeed your chicks. 
If they have food enough to make 
their craws show plainly, withhold your 
food. If their craws are crammed full, 
they have been overfed. Overfeeding 
causes indigestion and a derangement of 
the digestive organs, weakening and chill- 
ing the body and making it an easy prey 
to all the diseases that chickens are 
heir to. 
Keep your chickens hungry—very 
hungry. Turn an old hen and her 
brood out in the open field and watch 
nature feed them, and you will learn 
a better lesson in feeding little chickens 
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