THE PRACTICAL COUNTRY GENTLEMAN 



part; barley 3, peas i part; barley i, oats i, 

 and shorts i part. In Southern States, corn 3, 

 cowpeas 2 parts; corn 2, cowpeas i part mixed 

 with skimmed milk; corn 3, soy beans i part; 

 corn 5, and tankage i part. 



Poultry-feeding, on our large commercial 

 plants, has been reduced to a science, and the 

 dry-feed method has been generally adopted 

 with success. Fowls, in their natural state, 

 lived on weeds, seeds, grass, and insects. In 

 their domesticated condition these food elements 

 are supplied by grains, cut clover, alfalfa, and 

 beets. The dry feeder aims to supply all these 

 elements and in addition others that will enable 

 the fowls to store up a surplus of those ele- 

 ments which go toward making eggs. The 

 foods which are chiefly used are corn meal, bran, 

 middlings, gluten meal, linseed meal, and beef 

 scraps. These are mixed dry in the following 

 proportions : wheat bran 200 pounds, corn meal 

 100 pounds, middlings 100 pounds, gluten meal 

 100 pounds, linseed meal 100 pounds, and beef 

 scraps 100 pounds. A feed hopper of sufficient 

 size to keep twenty-five fowls supplied for at 

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