Follow Nature’s Teaching
In Poultry Culture, in order to succeed it is essential to study Nature, to find out how the hen in a wild state cares for her brood, and then bring the artificial conditions as near to Nature as possible. In almost every chick food put on the market the main ingredient, namely corn, was never intended for a young chick to eat. Consider for a moment, and you will realize that the hen in a wild state could not possibly feed corn to her young. For the sake of argument, however, suppose that corn did ripen at a time when it would be possible for the hen to procure it for her brood, the size of the kernel is so great that the small chick could not possibly swallow it. Thus Nature plainly points out that corn, for young chicks, is not the proper food.