BARTELDES SEED COMPANY 
THE ORIGINAL 
BUTTERMILK STARTING FEED 
Raises Husky Chicks 
A Ready Prepared Mash for baby chicks and all self -feeding young fowls. This remark- 
able feed — originated by Conkey and prepared through processes controlled and used 
exclusively by Conkey is a complete ration— containing all the elements needed for 
safely starting baby chicks, ducklings, goslings, poults, guineas, pheasants, etc. 
HIS superior chick mash was the 
first commercial poultry feed con- 
taining buttermilk — that is why 
we call it the only ORIGINAL 
buttermilk starting feed. 
Conkey' s did not "just happen" 
— it is a scientifically-balanced feed 
as clean and wholesome and as 
conscientiously-prepared as "in- 
fant food." Selected, plump grains, ground to 
proper fineness, are combined with other ingre- 
dients so as to make the feed readily digestible, 
palatable and nutritious. TASTE it, SMELL it, 
that's the way to judge a chick feed. 
Conkey's carries buttermilk in just the right 
proportion as an aid in prevention of bowel 
troubles, White Diarrhea, "leg weakness," etc. 
The buttermilk is Semi-Solid buttermilk, blended 
with the other ingredients by the ORIGINAL 
process in such a way as to preserve the appe- 
tizing, tonic, and other properties of the newly- 
churned product. 
The moisture in the buttermilk is drawn off 
by the exclusive Conkey process in such a way 
as not to subject it to the terrific heat usually 
required in "drying" buttermilk. 
Lactic acid in buttermilk is described as an 
"Intestinal broom" which sweeps away un- 
friendly bacteria and disease germs in the deli- 
cate digestive tract. Buttermilk is also rich in 
one of the vitamines necessary to growing 
birds. It is a wonderful appetizer, aid to di- 
gestion and flesh builder. 
However, it is not the buttermilk nor the other 
ingredients alone that causes people to declare 
that their chicks grow twice as fast on Conkey's. 
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS 
Crude Protein, 12%; Crude Fibre, 
4%; Crude Fat 3%; Nitrogen Free 
Extract, 56%; Carbohydrates, 60%. 
Ingredients 
Semi-Solid Buttermilk, pinhead 
oatmeal, a special wheat middlings 
whole corn meal, corn feed meal 
and granulated bone. 
It is not the buttermilk alone that protects the 
chicks from disease during the first critical eight 
weeks. The secret is in the combination of these 
materials by the Conkey method — the balancing 
of the ration, as Conkey alone knows how. 
Don't be influenced by "cheaper" imitations 
labeled "buttermilk" — that word may be used 
to deceive unwary buyers — to cover up a mul- 
titude of "sinful" grains, mill sweepings, pois- 
onous weed seeds, musty screenings, worthless 
by-products, or other poor material having little 
or no nutritive value. 
Conkey's is so palatable that one poultryman 
said it ought to be used for "breakfast food." 
One woman wrote : ' 'My chicks just love Conkey's 
It is so tasty, and my, how they do grow ! Bettei 
still, we didn't have a single loss in the present 
hatch, no White Diarrhea or other bowel troubles 
like before we began using Conkey's." 
FEED IT FIRST 8 WEEKS 
Conkey's is all the chicks need the first eight weeks except greens, charcoal, grit, 
clean water and some fine scratch grains in the litter for exercise. Give grit and water 
from the start. During the second week add green stuff and in the fourth week finely 
cracked chick grains, like Con- 
key's Chick Grains. 
