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Show FEED AND ATTENTION TO GROWING CHICKS Underfeeding Is Less Harmful Than Lack of Water Ration for First Three Weeks. (By HET-,EN WHITE, "Washington Experiment Ex-periment Station.) Growing that is the business of the young chick, and be sure to keep him at it. Underfeeding is less harmful than tact of water, which should be supplied, pure and freely. A good growing ration for the first three weeks of a chick's life may be made up as follows : Of cracked wheat or breadcrumbs and rolled or steel-cut oats, f eed equal parts by weight. With every ten pounds of bran mix one pound of beef scrap and one pound of granulated bone for the first mash to be fed dry after the eighth day. Chicks may -eat an excess of bran, which is rather bulky for the nourishment it contains. Use judgment in not letting them keep their crops crammed uncomfortably uncomfort-ably full of dry bran mash all day long. Note that the beef scrap should be sifted through a screen (fly size), and only the finer portion used for the youngest .chicks. Also note that the granulated bone is pretty nearly a necessity ne-cessity for closely yarded chicks, carrying, car-rying, .as it does, about 25 per cent of protein and 50 per cent of lime. Furthermore, it contains 24 per cent of phosphoric acid, and we are coming com-ing to believe the phosphates play an imnortont nart In dizestion. |