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Show PEANUT8 FOR YOUNG CHICKS. Good Where Peanuts Can Be Grown Cheaply. Crushed rnw peanuts are good in tho baby chick ration. LaBt year I used li bushels of peanuts to feed my first brood of puro-bred Uarrcd Plymouth flocks, 74 in number. I shelled the nuts by hand, crushed, thom with a woodon potato masher nnd ground thom In n coffee-mill, says n correspondent of Farm and Home. To be sure, It wns slow work to manufacture manu-facture a quart of peanut meal. It was then mixed with stnlo light bread that had boon motstoned with sweet milk. This mlxturo wns lightly worked into in-to a crumbly mass with a table fork, placed on plo tlnB, and given to tho chicks onco on nltcrnnto days. As it was salted to taste, they dovourcd It heartily and grow amazingly. Thoy wero yarded In a small In-cloauro In-cloauro until six wcoks old. belnc movod to fresh ground twice or thrlco a weok, and not a puny ono among thom. Corn bread, stale light bread, millet, curd, bollod potatoos nnd peanut pea-nut meal formed their bill of fnro, with plenty ot puro wator, milk and Croon grass In tholr ynrd. |