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certain amount of raw meat, and where 
this is not supplied by the insects and 
worms upon the range it must be fur- 
nished from table scraps, ground bone 
or meat scraps from the market. This 
may be fed in combination with the noon- 
time feed of soft stuff—table scraps, mid- 
lings, bran and the like. 
Green stuff in some form is also a ne- 
cessity, and where the fowls are confined 
in a grassless enclosure some means of 
providing the necessary amount of vege- 
tation should be devised. In summer the 
most convenient way will be by way of 
the lawn-mower, a few moments’ use of 
which, night and morning, will supply 
sufficient grass and clover, in a crisp, 
palatable shape, for a large flock. This 
should be placed before them the last 
thing at night and early in the morning, 
but should always be fresh and crisp if 
it is to be eaten with relish. The trim- 
mings from green vegetables may be 
chopped up and fed, cabbage and celery 
being especially acceptable to the flock, 
and all table refuse is greedily eaten. 
If the chicks have a comparative 
amount of liberty they will probably pick 
up enough gravel for the needs of their 
digestion, but lime should be provided 
in the way of ground bone, oyster shells, 
and the like, and a supply of broken char- 
coal should always be within reach, as 
this is an excellent corrective of indiges- 
tion and purifier of the blood. The clos- 
est watch should be kept for any signs 
of disease or of lice. The moment a 
fowl seems stupid, ailing or in any way 
out of the normal, it should be separated 
from the remainder of the flock until it 
is itself again or has developed a well- 
indicated case of illness; in the latter 
case, if of a contagious nature, it will 
be best to chloroform the bird at once 
and bury it deeply where the contamina- 
tion cannot spread to the rest of the flock. 
Lice are the greatest enemy of the 
poultry - raiser, and when suspected the 
most energetic measures should’ be 
adopted for their extermination, as no 
chickens will thrive when infested with 
lice. The first thing that should be done 
when a hen comes off her nest with her 
brood should be to examine her carefully 
for lice and dust her thoroughly with in- 
sect powder and place her in a perfectly 
clean barrel with clean bedding. The 
chicks should then be gone over care- 
fully, examining every bit of their heads 
and under the bill and throat and dusting 
them well and placing them as fast as 
treated under their mother. If all lice 
are gotten rid of on the start or are not 
present little trouble will be had with 
the chicks later in the season. 
In feeding young chicks the soft feed 
should not be thrown on the ground, but 
placed on clean boards and all uneaten 
food removed. Grain should be fed in 
long, narrow troughs, which the chicks 
cannot get into, and these should be 
placed on clean grass, gravel or on a 
board platform where there is no loose 
dirt or litter to scratch into it. The water 
dishes, also, should be similarly placed, 
and in as cool and shaded a part of the 
yard as possible. 
Care should be taken to close the bar- 
rels securely each night and to count the 
chicks every time they go to bed, are 
let out in the morning or whenever they 
are fed. In this way if a chick is miss- 
ing it may be looked for at once and in 
many cases saved. 
Chicks should not be taken from the 
hen, as a general thing, until she weans 
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