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We will start with the foods which give 

 the greatest quantity of lime, because it is 

 needed for shell and some fractional part 

 of the mineral matter in the white and yolk, 

 which is most essential, as it is converted 

 during incubation into bone for the develop- 

 ing chicken. 



Clover hay, linseed meal, and wheat bran 

 contain about six pounds of lime in every hun- 

 dred pounds. Turnip tops, beets, carrots, and 

 all grasses, also have a goodly percentage. 



Flesh comes from nitrogenous or albumenal 

 foods, first of which are beef, linseed meal, 

 middlings, bran, clover hay, oats, wheat, 

 skimmed milk. Fat and heat we get from 

 carbonaceous provenders, of which corn and 

 buckwheat come first, closely followed by 

 oats, wheat, rye, clover hay, linseed meal, and 

 milk unskimmed. 



Mineral matter lime, soda, potash, mag- 

 nesia, sulphur is principally formed by 

 the action of digestion, reducing the matter 

 containing these ingredients to ash. 



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