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Apple and Pear Scab. 



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cut chaff, which is thrown down upon the floor of the breeder 

 or brooder house, and they must scratch among the chaff to 

 find them. In uncovering one seed the rest are buried. 

 Experience has proved that chicks will without any teaching 

 commence to scratch as soon as they need food, about thirty 

 hours after hatching ; in short, that the action is instinctive. 

 The result has proved remarkable. Mortality has been reduced 

 to a minimum, and the birds thrive much more rapidly and 

 entail less labour for management than under the old system. 

 They feed when they are hungry, not when it is thought they 

 ought to be ready for a meal. But it is beneficial to give some 

 soft food after they are a month old. 



The following table of feeding has been adopted at the 

 College Poultry Farm, Theale, with great success : — 



A. — Dry Feed Mixture. (First Four Weeks.) 



Wheat 3 parts (by weight) Hempseed \ part" (by weight) 



Dari ... .. 2 ,, Linseed § 



Canary seed ... 2 ,, ., Buckwheat 1 



Oatmeal 2 ,, ,, Rice 1 



Millet 1 part „ Meat 1 



Broken maize ... I ,, Grit ... ... ... I 



B. — Dry Feed Mixture. (After Four Weeks.) 



Wheat 4 parts (by weight) Hempseed I part (by weight) 



Broken maize ... 2 ,, Meat 1 



F>ari 2 ,, Linseed J ,, 



Buckwheat ... 2 ,, Grit and oyster shell, 2* parts 



Rice 1 part 



C.— Soft Food. (After Eight Weeks.) 



Barley meal ... 4 parts (by weight) Meat 1 oart (by weight > 



Toppings 4 



D. — Biscuit Meal. 

 Spratts' Patent Chicken Meal. 



During the first four weeks Feed A is given alone in litter ; 

 in the next foui weeks Feed D is given warm (mixed with 

 warm water) at 7 a.m. and 2.30 p.m., and Feed B scattered in 

 the litter at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. ; and during the next four weeks 

 Feed C is given warm at 7 a.m., and Feed B scattered in the 

 litter during the rest of the day. 



Although the fungi (Fusicladhun dendriticum and F.pirinum) 



causing scab on apples and pears respectively are different species 



. , , they are very closely allied, and as the 



Apple and Pear . y c \ J 



Scab. general appearance of the disease and the 



methods of treatment are identical in both 



instances, a separate description of each is not necessary. 



