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Show POULTRY NOTES. Wheat grows feather. Feed oats for muscle. Red beets, either cooked or raw. are excellent for fowls. Millet seed contains considerable flesh forming substance. Common field peas make an excellent excel-lent pe" producing food. 16 According to the food is the health and prosperity of the hen. The food that is proper for the manufacture of eggs will be equally Se for the growth of feathers, o that fd WiU ideal molting food. Meat scraps should be kept in a cool place to avoid heating. It is claimed that carrots improve the color of the yolk of the egg. Barley should be fed only occasionally occasion-ally as it is a hard grain to digest. Grow mangels. They make excellent excel-lent green food for winter feeding. An exclusive nitrogenous food will be apt to result in bowel troubles and other disorders. Nitrogenous matter will grow bone and muscle, keep th blood In a healthy condition and produce both feathers and eggs. Egg production is not measured so much by the quantity as by the quality qual-ity of the food. Roots of all kinds can be fed cooked or raw, but they should be chopped up fine. Stale bread crumbs make a very good addition to the morning mash. So far as nutrition is concerned, a gill of linseed meal to a pint of corn will increase the ration to a value equal to two pints of corn. Just how much food to give at a meal is hard to determine. The man in charge must make a study of the appetites of each flock. Some hens will consume more food than others. |