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grade flour or middlings, and a little ground meat. For the first 

 week or ten days he fed five times a. day ; after that, three times. 



In an experiment conducted at the Purdue (Indiana) Station 

 chickens fed milk and grain made an average weekly gain 

 of 4.46 ounces, while those receiving no milk gained but 2.62 ounces 

 per week. The growth of the milk-fed chickens was more uniform 

 as well as more rapid. The general result seemed to show the bene- 

 ficial effect in every way of the skim-milk. 



It is not p>ossible for all to give their chicks unlimited range, 

 says Ohio Poultry Journal, and in such cases the feeder will have 

 to make up the deficiency by feeding bone-forming elements. The 

 best of these is green cut bone. 



William C. King, Hopkinton, Mass., says he feeds no meat food 

 to baby chicks until they are four weeks old. After that about ten 

 per cent of the mash food is composed of meat in some form as 

 long as he keeps the bird. He has found that an over-supply of 

 meat fed to stock in confinement is apt to cause a watery discharge 

 from the bowels, but birds on free range can stand nearly any 

 amount. 



Geo. Hall, East Islip, N. Y., says in feeding green cut bone, 

 about a half ounce can be allowed for half-grown chicks, but little 

 ones should not have over an eighth of an ounce each. 



When the chicks have good appetites, but weak legs, the 

 chicks moving about on their knees, it denotes too rapid growth. A 

 teaspoonful of citrate of iron and ammonia (a solid) in each quart 

 of drinking water, is recommended. 



Dr. G. M. Twitchell, before the Massachusetts State Board of 

 Agriculture, said : 



"In no place is skimmed milk more valuable than in growing 

 chicks. In my own experience I found the best ration for market 

 poultry to be thirty per cent of oats and wheat, twenty of corn and 

 ten of linseed all ground together and ten of meat scraps added. 

 This mixed into a dough with skimmed-milk I would bake until 

 thorojLighly cooked, set away for a day or more and then pound fine 

 and feed. In this combination I consider linseed one of the most 

 valuable parts, it is rich albuminous food and hence valuable in 

 forcing growth. If these chicks were intended to furnish future 

 layers I would change the ration to meet the changed condition. 

 No matter how choice the stock, how careful the breeding, how 

 well balanced the ration, unless regularity be observed in feeding it 

 is utterly useless to expect to succeed. Hunger must be appeased 

 at once, or the system draws upon its own stores for nourishment. 

 If regular hours are observed nature adapts the animal to the con- 

 dition. Green food must be supplied liberally, and for want of this 

 many broods are lost. A good plan is to sow oats or rape-seed in 

 boxes, and cut when two or three inches high, chopping fine and 

 feeding freely." 



Frank Y. Hopping, tells in the Germantown Telegraph, how 

 he feeds chicks to get big broilers for the early market. He says : "I 

 have found the following method of feeding chicks for broilers the 



