^6 Money in Broilers and Squabs. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Pointers on Feeding, Value of Feed Stuffs, Together With 

 Numerous Bills of Fare. 



Chick grit should be about the size of coarse sand. See that 

 the chicks have it constantly before them. 



Do not put meat scraps in the mash the first week. 



Hard-boiled eggs and wet cornmeal do more harm than good 

 to young chicks. 



Keep the chicks busy. Scatter millet or canary seed among some 

 light scratching material. 



Powdered charcoal — a teaspoonful to a quart of feed — should 

 be given daily. 



Lettuce, onion tops and lawn clippings, all cut fine, make the 

 best green diet. 



Be careful to neither overfeed nor underfeed. 



It is very important to have regular hours for feeding. 



Don't have a feast to-day and a famine to-morrow. 



Give fresh water twice a day during hot weather. 



Be sure to scald the drinking fountains thoroughly once a week 

 during hot weather. 



Scatter the grain so that the "bullies" in the flock cannot crowd 

 out the more timid ones. 



It is well for all to understand, writes James Rankin, that chicks 

 can be forced to a greater weight in a given time, when hatched 

 and grown artificially, than can possibly be done under hens. 



J. H. Drevenstedt says the crop of a week-old chick holds less 

 than a teaspoonful, and if filled at sunset will be exhausted long be- 

 fore sunrise, and hunger for an hour means a day lost in growth. 



"Little and often" is a good rule in feeding. 



According to the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 the cost of food, per chick, to weigh one pound, on ground grain, 

 is three cents : on whole grain, three and seven-tenth cents. After 

 making repeated tests in feeding, the Station concludes : The 

 ground grain ration proved considerably more profitable than the 

 whole grain ration with the growing chicks. 



Beware of sour food. AKvays throw away all soft food not 

 consumed. 



For chicks, clover meal is lictter than clover hay. 



W. R. Curtiss & Co., Ransom viile, N. Y., believes in feeding 

 broilers five times a day in the start, and later three times. 



J. H. Seeley, formerly manager of Ex- Vice President Morton's 

 New York broiler plant, says he finds there are less losses among 



