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Show FEED PROBLEM NOT SERIOUS Those Who Have Plentiful Supply of ' Home-Grown Feeds for Fowls Need Not Worry. The feeding problem will not be a serious one for those who have plenty of home-grown feeds for the fowls. But where grain, as well as other poultry feeds, must be bought, hens will be considered expensive luxuries, especially when not laying. And no reasonable poultry raiser expects hens to lay all seasons. There must be a time for molt, when the hens mast rest and prepare to lay the next clutch of eggs. There Is generally considerable waste In grain around the barn, granary and silo. If given a chance, poultry will eat grain and other feeds that might be wasted. In this way they are an asset Instead of a liability, lia-bility, even though there are times when the hens will not be laying. But hens should not be allowed to pre-empt their feed In the troughs, at the granary or where silage is scattered, scat-tered, but should be fed generously, or allowed the scattered grain, where they will not Interfere with feeding animals. . , When Judiciously fed fowls should be profitable as any of the animate, when the value of the animals and the equipment needed are considered. If they art not, then It must be that the fowls are the unprofitable kind. If this is the case and doubtless It often Is then get rid of the unprofitable unprofit-able fowls. |