Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1882 — Poultry—Food and Feeding. [ARTICLE]

Poultry—Food and Feeding.

There is some little art. if wo may so style it, in feeding young chicks to make a healthful and vigorous growth while young. Fully nine-tenths <«f the mortality among poultry, from sickness or disease, occurs while the chicks are still in the “ downy ” state, and the majority of this loss occurs from-improper food and careless or ignorant feeding. Corn meal, which is far too generally used, is unfit for young chicks, being too heat-, ing for their tender and immature digestive organs. Corn meal lias killed more young chicks than rats. The best food we have ever found for youDg birds is stale bread, either crumbled up and fed dry, scalded and sod when cool or else merely moistened in fresh milk. Where milk is abundant, it should always be used, and if the young birds get plenty of milk, in some form, they will grow so rapidly as to astonish those who have never given milk .liberally to their poultry. We know of ouo breeder, a large dairyman in Chester county, Pa., who feeds the principal part of his refuse milk to his poultry, old and young, and his birds are not only singularly free from disease, but large, and finely developed in body and feathering. This breeder gives milk the credit for it all, but it may be due iu part to excellent care. — D. Z. Evans, Jr., in American Agriculturist. Such who profess to disbelieve in a future state are not always satisfied with their own reasoning.