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Show PRACTICE ECONOMY IN FEED For Satisfactory Results One Must Feed Wheat, Corn and Oats Vegetables Help Outi Grain is high in price for those who keep poultry and have to buy their feed. It is causing some small breeders some concern and the question is already al-ready being asked, "How can I economize econo-mize in the grain I feed to the hens?" It is not possible to economize much on grain to be fed to poultry if you expect ex-pect satisfactory results. The staples are corn, wheat and oats, meat food, green food, grit, charcoal and oyster shells. These may be varied and helped out by green-cured clover and alfalfa to be fed after steaming, various vegetables vege-tables to be fed raw, and other vegetables vege-tables to be fed cooked and mashed and mixed with ground grains, like potatoes, po-tatoes, turnips, etc., says a writer in an exchange. These vegetables can often be purchased very cheaply from the growers after they have sorted out the marketable part. Cheap grains, like shriveled grain or sweepings, are generally more expensive in proportion propor-tion to the nutriment contained than first-class grain. Our advice is, continue to feed good grain, if eggs are expected, and economize econo-mize in the way it is fed. By this we mean, do not give the birds more than they will clean up. Many breeders feed in a deep litter, and we advocate this practice, but there must not be three or four inches of grain and dirt under the litter as we have seen in some poultry houses. |