A STUDY OF JUICY FEEDS 



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For all housed, or closely yarded stock fowls, then, we 

 may make this rule : The thrift of the birds, as far as 

 feeds may affect it, will be in exact proportion to the 

 balance of the ration with the " green" feeds, juicy and 

 dry. The hays and especially the clovers, dry, form an 

 important item in winter feeding, and give bulk without 

 furnishing so much water as to overdo the matter. The 

 word "balance," in this case, may be taken to refer not 

 so much to actual, comparative contents of the fresh, 

 vegetable foods which we are now especially to consider, 

 but rather to a certain effect upon the bird which is due 

 to the use of vegetable juices, etc. The table below may 

 show how largely made up of water the fresh vegetable 

 growths commonly fed to fowls or which might easily 

 be fed to fowls are : 



