The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-03-09
FARMERS COLUMN.
There Is no material progress that . eel
based and permanent without agricultural


Young chickens, when just from
the shell, are well fed by nature, as
they absorb the yolk a few minutes
before coming out. They therefore
need no feed for twenty-four houts,
and even thirtY-six hours fast will
be no serious deprivation. 1t is best
not to feed them until they are about
thirty-gix hours old, as the rest and
warmth viii, by that time, have Civ
en- them strength and activity. The
first meal should be bread crumbs,
molstened with milk, and allow
course oatmeal also. Continue this
feed until they are week old, giving
little chopped lettuce or cabbage
once a day. In mixing the bread
crumbs and milk, it would not be
out of place to first beat up an egg
in the milk. If bread crumbs are
not convenient, which is often the
case when there are large numbers
Of chicks, make thick porrldge OF
oatmeal and rice mixed, cook well
and let it become cold. Now beat
up an egg in milk or buttermllk, or
even hot water, and add to the por-
ridge. Thicker the porridge with
corn meal and feed to them. 1t must
be borne in mind that no food is
good for Young chicks if continued,
and hence it should be varied. AT
ter they are week old, they should
be given screenings, course oatmeal,
cracked corn. millet seed, sorghum
seed, broken rice, or any other hard
food that they can eat, hut the soft
food should also be given at least
twice day. Be cautious about feed
ing too much hard boiled eggs. Eve
rybody recommends such diet, and
poultry writer's seem to make that
kind of food alone sufficient fol
young chicks, but, our word for IT
you will cause them to become con.
stipated if eggs are used too freely
| A good food, after the second day
is cold boiled rice, thickened stiff1y
with very fine oatmeal, fine bran
| (shlp stuff, and corn meal, equa
parts. After mixing warm it lit
tie and feed. By all means get 8
bone mill, or procure bone-meal, ano
mix little together with powdered
charcoal, in the soft food. The
common amoniated bone-meal Will
not answer; button filings, or bones
from the table are preferable. Twice
or three times a week, if convenient
after the first week, feed finely chop
ded meat of some time, avoiding sal
or picked meats. Feed it cooked
or raw. When green stuff is mo-
procurable, few onions with tops)
lettuce, cabbage or young rye, chop
ped fine, will be relished. One Of thu
best foods in cold weather, wher
green stuff cannot be had, is to take
clover hay and cat it very fine. A
tobacco cutter answers we'll for cut
ting it, and pour boiling water plen
tifully over the chopped clover an6
let it stand all night. The mex
morning boil it, adding potatoes, car
, rots, turnips, beats or anything vol
prefer. A small piece Of beef. bee:
liver or ground meat may be put in
+ When we'll cooked thicken with on
part fine bran, one part ground oats
s and two parts corn meal, sailing t
} taste. Now add a teaspoonful o
the bone meal and the same quantit
of charcoal, and you have cheap
nutritious, variable food, which con
tains all the elements necessary 70
growth, heat and health. Once
week parch some wheat screenings
d ground oats, or even corn meal, an
: feed to hem, the meal beng moist
o ened.-Poultry Keeper.