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FOR POULTRY. In feeding fowls and most kinds 

 of poultry the rice corn and other small varieties are 

 found to be well adapted and are now generally pre- 

 ferred. Corn-meal and boiled potatoes, mixed to- 

 gether with hot water, are said to be an excellent 

 preparation for feeding to poultry through the winter. 

 To this some add a proportion of oat-meal, and com- 

 mend the combination very highly, as promotive of 

 health, and increasing the product of eggs. When 

 fowls are to be fattened for the table, they should be 

 shut up for several weeks and fed, four or five times 

 a day, with corn meal and ground barley or oats, 

 mixed together in the proportion of two to one, with 

 warm water and lard. For fattening turkeys, there is 

 no feed like Indian meal, and few if any modes of using 

 corn with more profit. His especial weakness, says a 

 writer in the Agriculturist, is Indian corn, and his 

 eye twinkles with delight at the sight of this golden 

 grain. His flesh tells the story of his keeping. For 

 the last six weeks of his life he should be plied with 

 corn as the standard diet. There is no cheating the 

 consumer. A lean bird is not the thing for forty 

 cents a pound. Be honest, give him a plump corn- 

 fed fowl, and sleep with a thriving pocket and a 

 good conscience, though the crib grows lean. 



FOR HORSES, Indian corn, in connection with 

 other feed, is well adapted, and if not given in exces- 

 sive proportion, is attended with advantage to the 

 animal, as well as profit to the owner. In the livery 

 stables of large towns, and among stage proprietors, 

 the addition of corn meal to the daily feed of the 

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