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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 must rest and prepare to lay the next clutcb of eggs. There U generally considerable ... ( ...... waste in grain around the barn, .. granary and alio. 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 Ha blllty, even though there are times when the hens will not be laying. Tint should not be allowed to preempt their feed In the troughs, at tho gntnnry or where silage Is scat-tered. scat-tered. but should be fed generously, or allowed the scattered grain, where they will not Interfere with feeding animals, .s t-.. . When Judiciously fed fowls should be profitable as any of the animals, 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 caseand doubtless it often Is then get rid of the unprofitable unprofit-able fowls. |