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The most useful hand garden tool on thie 
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It will pull out the weeds, pulverize the 
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It will work between the rows, or the 
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Feeding the Young Chicks 
Ge are many different yet successful 
methods of feeding, “little and often’’ 
being the best rule at first. We have had excel- 
lent success with the dry mixed grain feeds, 
supplemented with one, often two, feeds of 
green stuff and one of soft feed each day. 
We have never had thriftier, better chicks 
than when one meal a day was of stale 
bread soaked in milk, with enough ground 
corn, oats and bran mixed with it to soak 
up all surplus moisture. A little boiled 
egg mixed with bran is good, but too much 
is constipating. If moist feed is given 
care should be taken that none is left to 
sour. 
As a general rule, however, nothing is 
better at first than the mixed feeds, of 
good, sound grains. A little fine grit is 
needed with the first feed, chopped lettuce, 
cabbage or a little apple furnishing the 
needed succulence. Chopped onions and 
onion tops are excellent and healthful, and 
if there is any likelihood of gapes, give 
chopped onions. every day. 
As soon as the ground can be worked 
sow the runs to dwarf Essex rape, barley, or 
oats fora later supply of green feed. Rolled 
oats and pinhead oatmeal are good occa- 
sionally, and pearled barley and broken 
rice are excellent to furnish variety. Millet 
seed is good, but some chicks do not seem 
to care for it. Kaffir corn, whole wheat and 
cracked corn are excellent as the chicks 
grow older. Good wheat bran may also be 
fed separately in a dish so that the chicks 
can help themselves. 
dry mash in hoppers, from which the chicks 
can eat as often and as much as desired. 
No one feed, however, is as good as a variety. 
Charcoal should be always accessible and 
an abundance of pure water supplied in such 
a way that filth is kept out of it, is a necessity. 
Scald the drinking vessels frequently. Rice 
boiled in milk is excellent as a cure for 
diarrhoea. 
A good variation in the chicks’ feed is 
a cake made of equal parts of ground oats, 
with the hulls sifted out, corn meal, and wheat 
bran with a little good beef scrap and a 
little salt. Some add baking powder or 
soda. This is better if moistened with 
milk instead of water before baking. 
When chicks are confined good beef 
scrap is Indispensable to best results after the 
first week, unless green.cut bone is available. 
I know of fine chicks being raised later in 
the season, on free range in the orchard, 
on a feed of cracked corn and beef scrap 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
If one has but little time to spend feed a_ 
May, 1905 
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Thorburn’s Lawn Grass Seeds 
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