PROPAGATION 
range where there are worms and bugs, 
about fifteen per cent. of their food should 
consist of lean meat in some form. The 
best grades of meat scraps are, perhaps, 
the best forms in which to buy it. Your 
chicks should have clean, fresh water and 
fine, sharp grit before them all the time. 
Chicks will devour almost any sort of 
food found on the farm, and, if it is 
wholesome and well balanced, they will 
thrive on it, provided they don’t get too 
much. Never feed a sloppy mash to them; 
you may, however, with good results, 
moisten the mash with sour milk, but it 
should not be moistened so much that it 
will not crumble freely when feeding. A 
good mash for chickens after they are a 
week old is as follows: Hight Ibs. wheat 
bran, 2 Ibs. alfalfa meal, 4 lbs. cornmeal, 
2 Ibs. wheat middlings, 2 Ibs. sifted meat 
serap and % lb. ground bone; moisten 
with sour milk and feed three times a 
day; this, in connection with the cracked 
grains, and what they will pick up, will 
keep them thriving. A clean place for 
feeding should be provided, and they 
should be fed often and a little at a time. 
Give as great a variety of food as possi- 
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