Show I 1 AF 1 11 0 feeding fowls Eov ls chas S greene 1 ID a an adil address kess at 0 minnesota farmers institute said when you have selected the bread you ayou want an dhave thom them properly housed the next question is how to keep them healthy and get the most profit with the mast least expenditure for feed and laor labor as aa few of can find landi t pleasure plea suro enough in the business to pay its running nin expenses thero there are pro probably ba b 1 no two men who adopt precisely the samo same methods of feeding and yet each may have equally good success so that there can bo be no set rules laid down to be followed under all circumstances and conditions A person must study thle the composition of feeds know what their nutritive value is and tho effects they produce when fed to stock under varying conditions again the largo large breeds require quite different treatment from given the sin smaller allor ones feed that is right for leghorns Leg horns would be liable to make plymouth rooks too fat it fed in the e same ame way the manner and time of 0 feeding la Is of nearly aa much importance as the feed lt itself self wo we always adopt ai regular lat system feeding of and only change with tho seasons of the year or when conditions absolutely require it we wd have known a change of ferdand fee dand the time of feeding it tomake to make a difference with our own awil flack of leghorns Leg horns of over four hundred eggs a day inside of two weeks too much stress cannot be laid on regularity in feeding and the adherence to a steady system only changing chauvi ng veeh there is a good reason for so doing all soft feed should be fed on wide boards or in troughs which aro are kept clean and the fowls should never be allowed to huddle together any more than is necessary exercise is of importance when trying to produce eggs during the winter months by keeping the floor ot of the house houm littered with dry straw chaff or leaves and scattering the whole feed into it the fowls got all the exercise they |