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RURAjl* NEW-VORKER 
March 2, 1918 
A GREAT many people think be- 
cause a little chick likes to “scratch and 
pick”— that cracked wheat, cracked corn or 
scratch feeds are the best feeds for young chicks. That’s a 
wrong idea. This old-time fallacy has played havoc with 
poultry profits too long. More chicks die from improper 
feeding than any other cause. The losses are enormous. 
For years our poultry feed experts have been 
experimenting to find a feed which would change this 
deplorable condition. They studied the habits and physical 
weaknesses of chicks—fesfet? numerous feed formulae and finally discovered 
that OATMEAL (without hulls) when properly balanced with beef scraps, 
bone meal, green feed and other protein ingredients, not only agreed perfectly 
with the delicate digestive organs of young chicks, but made them grow much 
bigger, healthier—hastened maturity and developed earlier, better laying pullets. 
FUi-O'PEp 
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This new OATMEAL feed, which is a finely 
ground, easily assimilated feed, is fast changing the 
"‘old time” grain feeding practice, that has played such havoc 
with poultry profits. It is without doubt the best growing mash ever offered. 
Poultrymen like Thompson, Fishel, Felch,Dann, 
Kempster, Lambert and numerous others are wise to 
the superior value of OATMEAL for little chicks. 
Prof. A B. Dann, of Cornell University, says: “When hulls are re¬ 
moved from oats (oatmeal) we have one of liie finest feeds we know 
of for little chicks.” 
E. B. Thompson says: “I consider OATMEAL a valuable ingredient 
for a poultry food for both young chicks and laying hens.” 
U. R. Fishel says: “Any poultry food that contains plenty of oats 
(oatmeal) is bound to make good growing feed.” 
IIIITM E HI Successful PouKrymen’s 
UA I IfflEAL Secret of SUCCESS with Chicks 
FULO-PEP GROWING MASH, for chicks 
and young fowls, goes several steps further than the big 
poultry raisers’ method. While its base is finely ground OAT- 
MEAL, we have added other necessary ingredients — animal foods, bone and 
muscle foods, green foods, etc., all so skillfully balanced that it makes chicks 
grow faster, bigger, healthier. 
After your chicks are ten days old give them 
all they will eat. You cannot over-feed it. Keep it be^ 
fore them all the time. They will “go to it” just like feasting 
on bugs, insects, worms and green stuff when on free range, only in this feed 
we have given them many more good things than they could possibly pick up 
on free range. Remember, FULL-O-PEP GROWING MASH-—Not Grain 
Feeds —MAKES CHICKS GROW DIG. 
For chicks just hatched, after three days on bread crumbs, feed FUL-O-PEP 
CHICK FEED which consists of finely granulated corn, wheat, pin-head oat¬ 
meal and fish scraps. You will find it gives them a fine start. After the first 
week or ten days feed FUL-O-PEP GROWING MASH. For laying hens you will find FUL¬ 
O-PEP DRY MASH and FUL-O-PEP SCRATCH GRAINS so much superior to anything yoji 
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Feeding the Young Chick 
I would appiPfiate a few pointers in 
regard to the most approved and suc¬ 
cessful methods of feeding chicks the 
' fir.st five weeks. I have been more or 
less succo.ssful in this, and have used 
most of the rations such as rolled oats, 
johnny cake, chick food, hard-boiled 
eggs, etc., hut still am alwniys under the 
impressiou that my methods could ho 
improved, and a greater per cent of 
chicks raised than I now do. Let us as¬ 
sume that the temperature is right iu 
the brooders (I use hard-coal hovers) ; 
that the chicks come from good .stock 
and are free from disease. What, from 
varied experience with the methods most 
iu use today, would you recommend as 
a feeding method for the first five weeks? 
I would like to adopt .some regular sys¬ 
tem, and stick to it, so that if an unusual 
mortality occurred I would be practically 
sure it was not the method of feeding. 
Of cour.se quantity has a great deal to 
do with it. and I am always careful to 
f(>ed very light the first few days, with 
no feed'at all the fir.st two days after 
hatching. E. G. C. 
New York. 
I Imve never been strong for “sys¬ 
tems” in poultry raising, hut, on the 
other hand, realize that the .so-called 
common sense methods advocated by some 
eaniiot be a]>plied h.v those who lack the 
common sense. T'ornmon ^ sense, as I 
would define it, is the ability to think 
logically and act rationally in any line 
of endeavor. This ability is_ acquired 
largely from experience and is not in¬ 
herent in the amateur poultry raiser.^ so 
systems have their place, after all. With 
tiie experience which you have evidently 
had, I doubt if I can help you much; 
still, I am willing to formulate a few 
rulo.s, derived from observation and 
practice, which seem to me to cover the 
most essential matters. 
Iltitch only from vigorous .stock whose 
vitality has'not been depleted by long 
Continued and heav.v laying. Many 
chicks are three-fourths dead when 
hatched; it doesn’t take them long to 
go the rest of tlie way. 
Don’t hatch too early. Thore are sev¬ 
eral reus(nis why it doe.su’t i>a.v. 
Don’t hatch too lare. The vitality 
which a fowl can heejueath to its off- 
.spring peters out as hot weather ap- 
pi-oaches. Spring is nature’s time for 
begiiiuings. 
Don’t feed for at least 24 hours after 
hatehiug. . 
Give water as soon as food is .sup¬ 
plied. or before, ■ and never let a chick 
spend a waking moment out of sight of 
a clean, fresh supply. 
Give fresh greens, tender grass, let¬ 
tuce. etc., from start to finish. Don’t 
scrimp here. 
Avoid slops. Birds apparently need 
to take their food and drink separ- 
ately. . , 
F’eed the bulk of the ration dry. Di-y 
foods don’t push chicks quite as fast, 
but they are .safer. 
Feed both hard grains and ground 
mashes from the start. 
Use simple foods and methods. Variety 
and complexity wa.ste time and benefit 
neither chick nor owner. 
Corn alone will raise chicks; the ad¬ 
dition of wheat and oats, with meat and 
greens is needed, however. 
A good cracked grain ration is one 
part j.in head oatmeal ; two parts cracked 
<■ 0111 ; three parts cracked wheat. Noth¬ 
ing better. 
A good mash, wet or dry: Equal 
parts by weight of cornmeal, wheat bran, 
middlings, and sifted h«‘ef .scrap. One 
part of bone meal added would doubt¬ 
less improve it. 
A good “first meal” food: Rolled oats 
with bread crumbs. Good any time. 
A good idea: T.et your wife mother 
the chicks the fii-st few da.vs. They can 
he had, if you haven’t one. 
Don’t putter around the chicks all the 
time. It’s full hut foolish. 
That’s the stufl, now how? 
After the cliicks have had 24 to o6 
hours for digesting the lunch they 
brought from the incubator with them, 
sprinkle some rolled oats and bread 
crumbs over th.eir hac'ks and place water 
before them. Likewise sprinkle a little 
chick grit wln're they can get it. Now 
take some shallow boxes, maybe cigar 
boxes, fill them with that dry mash and 
cover the latter with a grid cut from 
some half inch wire netting. Set these 
upon the floor and keep them filled. The 
chicks will empty them faster than you 
think. 
Two or three times daily, sprinkle a 
little of the cracked grain in their litter. 
Adjust the quantity to their appetites. 
Mid-foroiiooii and mid-afteriioon, 
moisten a little of the mash with skiin- 
milk or water and feed lightly of it. Go 
easy with this until the chicks are old 
enough to he out on range and stand a 
little hurrying up. If you have sour 
milk, let the chicks have free access to it 
all the time. 
A constantly accessible dry mash is a 
food balance wheel. If the chicks are 
scrimped elsewhere, they make up here. 
If they are overfed elsewhere, they eat 
less here. 
How much? Use your judgment, and, 
if you haven’t any, acquii’e it as soon as 
you can. Don’t scrimp aiul don’t stuff, 
but, if .vou must do either for the first 
few weeks, scrimp. Watch the chicks. 
If they are too hungry, they aie ravenous 
and trample ejich other under foot to 
get at the food. If they are not bun 
gry enough, they are as polite as a boy 
:it his first party and wait for otheis 
Bad sign. A thriving chick should either 
be asleep or as active as a book agent. 
If they are logy when awake, they are 
overfed or ill. S;ime way with all young 
animals. This is about all the .system 
I have. If it doesn’t jibe exaetl.v with 
yours, don’t be too ready to assume that 
you are wrong. There are a multitude 
of ways to rai.se chickens; a vigorous, 
well-hatched one will live through any 
of them. II. B. D. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK j 
DOMESTIC.—,\t Knoxville, Tenu., 
Fehruar.v 14, tlie Ue<1ei-al Gi-and .Tury 
returned 2.3 indictments against 47 de¬ 
defendants, including coal operators, coal 
dciilers and coal brokers of the east Ten¬ 
nessee field, chaiging violation or the food 
control bill. Tlie indictments resulted 
from investigations made during the last 
two month.s by the Department of ,Tus- 
tice, A\hieh developed charges of viola¬ 
tions of Government fixed prices ami 
Fuel Administr.'ition orders. 
Feb. 14 fire in the orphanage conducted 
by the Grey Nuns at Montreal. Canada, 
caused the death of 38 children. All the 
inmates of the great buildings except the 
children arc believed to have p.scaped. 
They included nuns, uur.sing sisters, 
wounded or sick soldier.s from overseas, 
aged slek or crippled men and women to 
the number of almost 1.000. The chil¬ 
dren were lioiised in the section of the 
hiiihling Avhere the fire started, and tiie 
flames spread so rapidly it was impossible 
to save tliem. 
Feh. li* Capt Vernon (’astle Blythe of 
the Royal Flying (lorps was killed in an 
aviation accident at Fort Worth. Tex. 
Capt. Blythe was <\idely known as a 
dan<-er and entertainer, had made many 
flights on the Freneh battle front, and 
met death wli'm he prevented w hat would 
liave been certain death for him, the <'a(let 
with him and au aviator in another idaiie 
who wa.s landing near h.v at what i.s 
known as a “blind angle.” Sjieeial ex¬ 
amination is now being made into aero- 
lilane manufacture here, as numerous ac¬ 
cidents have <-au.sed suspicion of 
treachery. 
I'he steamshiii Minsk, of the Rcamii- 
navian-Americaii line, was .scuttled at her 
pier iu Hoboken Feh. lf> to save her and 
adjacent property from a fire in her 
hold. She w-as veady to steam and <-)ir- 
ried a considerable shipment of Red 
Cross stores. The fire sturfed in <'otton 
in No. 2 hold. The damage is about 
.^oOO.lMlO. I’lie cause of the fire was not 
discovered. 
Feb. 16 Oov. Edge of New .Tersey 
signed the anti-loafer hill, which compels 
ever.v able-bodied man in the State to en¬ 
gage in work of some sort. 
Authorities of Boiihomme County, S. 
D., I’eh. 18 cIowhI the flouu mill operated 
by Mennonites, 16 miles south of Tyn¬ 
dall, S. D.. on charges of a farmer named 
IMcDonald, that a Imx of ground glass was 
found by him iu a .sack of feed which had 
been ground at the mill, according to ad¬ 
vices r<*ceived at 8ioux Falls. The mill 
was closed pending investigation. 
H. A. Schroeder, ex-seeretary of tlie 
German Consulate at Honolulu, w'us fii ed 
$1,000 Feb. 18 by .Tudge William O. Vau 
Fleet in the United States District Court, 
Sail Francisco, he previously having 
ideaded guilty to a charge of eoiispiriiig 
to foment revolution against British lule 
in India. Judge Van Fleet ordered Unit 
Sehroeiler serve thre«‘ months in jail if 
he did not pay the fine. 
An explosion in the Dn Pont powder 
works at AVayne. N. ,T.. Feb. 10, injured 
four men and caused heavy property 
loss. 
Feb. 10 a time boinh placed in the Pas¬ 
saic County Court House at Paterson, 
N. .1.. during a session of the draft ex- 
emiition boai’d caused a loss of about 
$10,000. No one was hurt. 
A State system of workmen’s health 
insurance is i)roposed iu a liill introduced 
in the New' York Legislature Feh. 18 hv 
Senator Courtlandt Nicoll. of New York 
cit.v. The bill confoi'ius geiierall.v to the 
plan present<Mi last year by the Aiuer- 
iean Association for T.ahor Legislation, 
wliich then was opiiosed in some details 
by organized laboi'. hut iu reyisi'd form 
has since been given its unanimous sup¬ 
port, following careful study by the com¬ 
mittee on h(*alth of the State Fe<leratiou 
of I.abor. It <-overs sickness of all wage- 
earners and their deiiendents. provides 
cash and medical benefits for twenty-six 
weeks in a year, and offers special ma- 
ternitv benefits for working mothers. The 
aetuai cost of the benefits, by the terms 
of the bill, is to he shared equally by the 
employers and insured employes, the total 
of w'hieli is estimated to be on the aver¬ 
age less thau 4 jier cent of wages. 
eral supervision of the system is vested 
by the hill in the State Industrial Com¬ 
mission as under w'orkmen’s compensation, 
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