SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
to injure themselves; this is more espe- 
cially true of the little chicks. The little 
chicks should have troughs for their 
moistened mash and sour milk that can 
be easily cleaned, and these troughs should 
be scalded and sunned every day. 
Remember that although you seek to 
imitate nature in every way that you can, 
you are yet raising your chicks artificially, 
and every precaution that you take to 
guard them against disease and protect 
them from discomfort will add to your 
success. Baby chicks, like human babies, 
ask for nature’s environment and na- 
ture’s food, given in nature’s quantities 
and in nature’s clean way, and if they 
don’t get them or something that ap- 
proaches very near to them, they die. 
And it seems to me that death is wel- 
comed by them whenever their surround- 
ings and food are not what they ought to 
be; and I believe it comes as a blessing, 
both to them and their owner, for it re- 
lieves them of a life that can never be 
anything but a life of misery and him of 
a burden that can never prove anything 
but unprofitable. 
Feeding troughs and hoppers can 
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