CHAPTER IX 



FEEDING FOR EGGS AND FOR MEAT 



THE successful poultry -keeper recognizes that 

 all kinds of wholesome poultry food which the 

 market affords are not equally well suited to his 

 fowls which he keeps for the production of either 

 eggs or meat. He lays great stress on the care- 

 ful selection of food for the making of special 

 products. 



FEEDING FOR EGGS 



If one desires to feed economically for egg 

 production, and has learned little or nothing from 

 experience, a most valuable lesson may be learned 

 from nature. It will be observed that those fowls 

 which are more or less neglected, and, conse- 

 quently, not so far removed from the natural 

 state, lay most abundantly in the spring. In 

 this respect, then, the poultry-keeper may profit- 

 ably aim, so far as it lies within his power, to 

 prolong the spring throughout the year. In the 

 spring these fowls are at liberty to roam at will 

 and to find abundant green food in the tender 



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