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Show HEN WAS LACKING IN MILK Amateur Farmer Awakened to Fact That Hit Chickens Must Bt Fed In Order to Thrive. During tho first year tho amateur farmer discovers that all his chickens which were confined In coops, were languishing at the point ot death. The novelist wont over his hen literature to locate tho cause ot his trouble, but to no avail. Finally he called upon a neighbor to whom ho put tho question: ques-tion: "What do you supposo Is the matter with those chickens?" "Well, I dunno. What do you feed 'em?" "Feed them I" exclaimed tho novelist farmer, "why I don't feed them anything." any-thing." "Then how'd ou supposo they were ngoln' to livo?" "I presumed," roplied tho literary person, "that the old hen had enough milk for thora now." |