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At first this mixture should be given after being scalded 

 as previously described, then give it dry at the midday and 

 morning meals until by the time the chicks are two months 

 old dry feed may be given at all three meals. 



At this period provision must be made for the supply 

 of such forms of meat food and green stuff as the 

 chicks require. The desiccated meat will have to be 

 replaced by a cheaper substitute, such as greaves. It is 



Fig, 12. Meat-Chopping Machine. 



necessary that the greaves supplied be of the best quality 

 of mutton greaves chopped finely. An addition to this 

 may be made of suet, also chopped finely, but the latter 

 must not be given in any great quantity. Where rabbits 

 are plentiful then flesh may be given with advan- 

 tage, and is best prepared by being boiled until it comes 

 away from the bone; remove the latter and chop the flesh 

 up finely, incorporating it with the grain feed in the 

 proportion of the flesh of two rabbits to each bushel of 

 grain feed. 



It must be here observed that it is far better to provide 



