This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...left out, but the chicks do not grow so fast as when the mash is fed. There seems to be least danger from bowel looseness when the dry grains only are fed and it is very essential that the mash be dry enough to crumble in order to avoid that difficulty. Young chicks like the moist mash better than though it was not moistened and will eat more of it. There is no danger from the free use of the properly made mash, twice a day, and being already ground the young birds can eat and digest more of it than when the food is all coarse. This is a very important fact and should be taken advantage of at the time when the young things are most susceptible to rapid growth. But the development must be moderate during the first few weeks. The digestive organs must be kept in normal condition by the partial use of hard foods and the gizzard must not be deprived of its legitimate work and allowed to become weak by disuse. By the middle of June the chickens that were hatched in April are being fed on cracked corn, wheat and the mash. At about that time the portable houses with their contents of chickens are drawn from their winter locations out to an open hayfield where the crop has been harvested and the grass is short and green. Until last season we had continued feeding two feeds 0 cracked corn and wheat and two of mash daily as long as the birds remained in the field. Last June we had 1,400 chickens well started and we changed the plan of feeding by keeping cracked corn, wheat, and beef scrap, in separate slatted troughs where they could help themselves whenever they desired to do so. Not more than one-fourth of the grain was wheat for the pullets, while in the cockerel division nothing but cracked corn and beef scrap were fed. Grit, bone and oyster shell were always sup...