348 FARM ANIMALS 
sharp, clean sand on the nursery food is advisable. Feed 
five to six times a day, from two to three hours apart. 
Give what the chicks will cat up clean in a period of 15 
to 20 minutes. See that the backward ones are not 
crowded aside. Pure, clean water must be kept before 
the chicks; if the weather is cold, use lukewarm water. 
Drinking fountains are preferable to shallow pans be- 
cause they prevent the chicks from getting wet. 
12. First week in brooder.—After a couple of days the 
nursery food may be dropped for a less expensive ration. 
Many chick feeds are now on 
the market and these are excel- 
lent. Home-made mixtures 
may be secured by using 
ground wheat, ground oats, 
or barley and ground corn, and 
bran. Some green food is de- 
Waite Wvanpotre Cuicxs Five Sirable. If green clover, al- 
ici hast falfa or grass is not available, 
steamed alfalfa meal, with an equal amount by bulk of 
bran and middlings, serves as an excellent substitute. 
The grain and other seeds comprising the chick feeds 
may be thrown into finely cut grass, hay or clover, or 
other loose material after the chicks are five or six days 
old,so they may get the fun and 
exercise of scratching it out. ee. 
13. From second to sixth 
week.— By the time the chicks 
are seven or eight days old 
they should be allowed to run 
out of doors, especially on 
clear days, even if it is cold 
and raw. It is important that OUT-OF ‘Doors 
they be taught to go to their hover, however, before they 
