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Show POULTRY NOTES. Wheat grows feather. Feed cats for muscle. Rod beets, either cooked or raw, are excellent for fowls. Millet seed contains considerable HofI) forming substance. Common field rcas make an excellent excel-lent egg producing food. According to tho food is the health mid prosperity of the hen. - Meat scraps should be kept In a rool place to avoid heatlrg. White middlings contain more nutriment nut-riment than the brown kind. It Is claimed that carrots Improve Ihe color of the yolk of the egg. Parley should be fed only o caslon-illy caslon-illy rs It Is a hard grain to digest. Grow margels. They make excel-cut excel-cut green food for winter feeding. Stale bread crumbs make a very coed addition to the morning mash. An exclusive nitrogenous fond will ' ic apt to' result In bowel trouble! and ther disorders. Epg production Is not measured so nuch by the quantity ss by the qtial- j iy cf the food. Hoots of all kinds con be fed! coked or raw, but they should be i 01 ped up fine. Nitrogenous matter will grow bone md muscle, keep the blood In a ifalthy condition and produce both eathrrs and eggs. So far as nutrition Is concerned, a 1 of linseed meal to a pint of corn ) 1 III Increase the ration to a value qual to two pints of corn. The food that Is proper for the , manufacture of egss will be equally j ultsble for the growth of feathers, o that an egg food will make the deal molting food. Just how much food to g1v at a neal Is hard to determine. The man r. charge must make a study of the ppetl'e! of each flock. Some hens j rill consume more foo4 than others. I |