Show STARVING CHICKS IS UNNECESSARY Experts Expert Find Early Feeding Is Not Harmful Prepared by the United States Department or of Agriculture The popular belief that baby s I should hould be starved for the first 48 or 72 hours to tit prevent plc bowel trouble ha has finally given way to scientific knowl edge It Is now known that knOW early feeding Is not harmful However n neither does dela delayed ed feeding seem to tobe tobe be harmful I l Experiments conducted by Burt W. W and Dr M. M A. A Jull poultry specialists of the United States Department De De- of A Agriculture to determine the effect of early parly feeding on the absorption ab sorption of nf the egg yolk which Is usually usually us us- present nt in the body of the chick when show unit that early feeding tends to stimulate slightly the rate of if yolk assimilation Feeding Feeding Feed leed in ing scratch grain rain c caused more rapid a than feeding mash A As a U result of these I Doctor lull Jail points out poultry raisers mm now have unhinged facts to guide them In the the- management of baby chicks Under normal conditions the best thIn thing to do di Is feed them early carly If It there e Is sonic sOllie special reason for tor withholding with wIth- holding food 1011 for the first two tro or three days S 'S this cuil con can be he done without running run run- ning the risk of stunting the chicks Bah Baby chicks shipped by parcel post or orby orby I I by hy express probably should not be fed before being shipped Doctor Jull Tull says I I |