54 Money in Broilers and Squabs. 



We might add, also, that we never give milk to the chicks 

 until it is boiled. There is less likelihood of having any evil effects 

 from it. We have known of bad cases of bowel troubles coming 

 from feeding fresh milk. 



George W. Pressey, of Hammonton, who, with the assistance 

 of his two daughters, raised and marketed nearly 5,000 chicks in a 

 j single season, used this plan of feeding: 



When the chickens are twenty-four hours old, feed them with 

 baked corn cake made as follows : Three quarts corn meal, one 

 quart wheat middlings, one quart of meat meal. Mix quite stiff witli 

 water or skimmed milk, in which have been mixed four tablespoon- 

 fuls of vinegar, and two teaspoonfuls of soda. Bake, and when 

 cold, crumble fine and feed for the first week all they will eat, or 

 during the time they are kept in a warm room, which must never be 

 over ten days, or they will sicken and die for want of pure outdoor 

 air. For the first week they should be fed once a day with mashed 

 potatoes, given plenty of water to drink and plenty of coarse sand. 

 The food for outdoors is two parts corn, one part wheat, and one part 

 oats, ground together quite fine. To each ten quart pailful of this 

 mixture add one quart of wheat bran, half a cup of pulverized bone 

 meal, one pint of middlings, and a pint of meat meal. I\Iix rather 

 dry with hot water, and leave for two hours before "feeding, to give 

 it a chance to swell. AA'ith this food, he also, once a week, gives 

 a half teaspoonful of salt, and in cold weather a quarter teaspoonful 

 of red pepper ; and once or twice a week he adds a spoonful of sul- 

 phur; and about as often, mixes in the drinking water for the day, 

 a spoonful of Douglas Mixture to every one hundred chickens. Pow- 

 dered charcoal is kept before them all the time. 



At first it is best to feed the chicks every two hours, all they will 

 eat up clean. After about two or three weeks old they can be con- 

 fined to three meals a day. The first feed of the day should be given 

 at daybreak, and the last feed a little before they are ready to creep 

 in their broock-rs for the night. 



Great care must be taken in the preparation of the food. It must 

 not be sloppy, neither hot. It should be just moist enough so as to 

 . be easily crumbled, and warm. 



Food must be given in troughs. If thrown upon the floor it 

 will be trodden under foot and wasted. 



It must not be forgotten that the methods of feeding herein 

 given are for broilers alone. In raising birds for breeding purposes, 

 more attention must be paid to growth of bone and muscle than fat. 



With regularity in feeding, and a regular warmth in the 

 brooders, two-thirds of the troubles in raising chicks can be avoided. 

 As brooder-raised birds are free from lice, and are never troubled 

 with gapes, it shows that if there is a failure in the method, it must 

 be though the instrumentality of the man. As we have said before, 

 good brooders and good food are everything. It is much easier to 

 hatch the eggs than raise the chicks. 



For sc\'eral years we have g-iven a test of F. P. C. Chick Mannn 

 as the exclusive food for young chicks up to ten days of age. We 



