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Show DRY GROUND GRAIN. Can be Satisfactorily Fed from a Feed Hopper. A poultry feed hopper for feqdlng ground grnln has proved vory satis-i satis-i J. - factory, Mnko a - r" ' box 18x18 Inches jf K3- and C Inches deep, ft , jjg then tnko off ono jft ' JX' end nnd fnsteu to R tho back with 'A -JTj. binges, which lSp. g. forms tho cover. Nail n strip, a, 3 Inches wldo across the open stdo at bottom, which forniB tho box for the poultry to ent from, Tako a board, b, the width of Inside of box, 14 Inches long, nnd Insert In front of box, nailing nail-ing ns shown In cut, with tho upper end oven with front edgo of box nnd slanting In until n space of 2 inches Is left between bottom pf ..board and back of bpx to allow tho feed to" pass through. ' . Tho feed is poured Into this hopper and runs down Into 'box, at bottom as fust iia needed, Tho slzo of the hopper can bo varied to suit tho slzo of tho flock. It should bo screwed to .wall of poultry houso about 12 Indies from lloor. lly using this hopper we .keep n dry- mixture consisting of wheat brim nnd middling nnd occasionally occa-sionally corn meal, or n small amount of linseed menl, nlwnys before our fowls. In nddltjbn, says tho writer In Farm and Home, wo feed n .mixture of whole corn, onts nnd wheat In the Utter morning ntid evening, also some ground "greon bono nnd bdof senilis, both of which wo get (roin n local butcher. |