d with the pinhead oats)
1 pound table salt

This mash is fed to the chicks as soon as they are placed under the
brooder stove. It may be placed in hoppers. Let the chicks have all
they want to eat; some of the mash should be before them at all
times.

Teach the chicks where to find the warmth by enclosing them for a few
days with a 1/2 inch mesh wire one foot high and set from 10 to 12
inches from the edge of the hover.

Put some clean grit on bits of cardboard in several places around the
hover when the chicks are first brought from the incubator.

A little sour skim-milk or semi-solid buttermilk, diluted 1 to 7 in
founts should be available from the beginning.

After the chicks are 60 hours old or when you are sure they are
hungry, begin to feed, using cardboard in the same manner as before.
Follow the feeding chart.

Feed little and often. Keep the chicks slightly hungry.

Watch for dead chicks and remove them as soon as they are noticed.

Attend to heaters early and late; be sure at all times that they are
in good working order.

Clean out litter, particularly beneath the hover as often as it
becomes soiled.

Induce exercise and keep the youngsters occupied.

Get them out-of-doors as early as possible, even if only for a few
minutes in the warmer part of the day.

Feed green feed. Feed early and late. Keep the chicks growing.

_Growing Stock Ration._--The baby chick mash can be used for feeding the
growing birds, omitting the cod liver oil if they are on range. The baby
chick grain ration can be used also during this period but it need not be
so finely cracked. Plenty of grain should be available at all times.

_Laying Ration._--When the birds are getting ready to lay, the ration
should be changed so that during the winter laying season the mash will
include equal amounts of yellow corn meal, wheat bran, wheat middlings,
ground heavy oats and meat scrap. Twenty-five per cent of dried buttermilk
or skim-milk may be substituted for an equal amount of meat scrap.

The grain ration should consist of equal amounts of cracked or whole
yellow corn and wheat. This should be fed in the late afternoon, giving
sufficient to satisfy the appetites of the birds between the time of going
to roost and a light morning meal. It should be fully consumed by eight
o'clock in the morning. Ade