Show SUCCESS IN LITTLE CHICKS proper feeding the great secret half dozen methode Me thoda any one of which la by do not allow anyone to convince bov that there la only one way tu rear little chicks some methods may bo belter than others but abe fact Is that biero are hall a dozen methods any one ot which la as good aa ronny of tho others several almea I 1 have known some young and enthusiastic fancier to bet out to show that feeding dry feed waa better or thau feeding moistened feed in not a single in has the trial proved anything I 1 was called upon to decide which 0 two flocks of chacka were tho best after ona or isad eon drought up on moistened feed and the other on dry feed exclusively and I 1 found it to detect any difference worth mentioning in point of economy there doea not seem to be any difference the result in my case hea been that I 1 feed dry feed all the time because it 1 easiest to do no when chicks are fed dry feed there la oo 00 woric ot mixing rajshee nor la there any fermented teed left over the whole secret of rearing chicks aa tar 03 feeding Is concerned seems to be to see that they are kept full all the time I 1 reared a flock of chicks last summer on wheat and rolled barley exclusively clu the only feed beside theao two grains they got was donao green mustard tops and sprouted wheat as green feed waa exceedingly scarce the mustard tops grew up along an irrigation ditch and were fed to tho chicks no beet scraps no milk juat wheat and barley most of tho time the chicks bad sprouted wheat to dig for wheat was scattered thickly covered lightly and the eoll kept damp to prevent tin chicks from getting it too and to prevent too rapid evaporation the bed waa covered with burlap sacka until the wheat began to throw up green sprouts then abe chicks were turned on and they would eat nothing olse as long aa they could have this wheat in abe course of germination the starch in abe wheat la changed to augar of a sort which chacka like this process also partially algesta the starch making it easily digestible by the chicks I 1 think wheat barley or oats make about the best combination of green teed and that the can uce and they beautifully on it preferably I 1 feed cracke corn and cracked tor the fart two weeks at two weeks of age I 1 begin to feed a good quality of dried beef scrap and alway I 1 koep grit charcoal and clean water where the can help if any ona trio to argue with me that ground grains enough to thick dough la better than cracked grains fed dry I 1 do not ar tho caad I 1 do not believe it la dmn while on principle I 1 feed bound and bleet grain I 1 would not want to eat musty feed the chicles that run at largo around a farm yard pick up a lot of grain in the cobrae of tah year that 1 anything but bound a nd noticed that athla interferes jtb their health feed often and teed plenty aad be chacka will do the iest an average of ona pound of grain r week hlll supply a chick for the first ten weola at its life |