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THE BEGINNER IN POULTRY 



to heaviness and laziness; these, in time, tend toward 

 barrenness and general unthrift. The animal economy 

 calls for food just balanced, to its needs, whether those 

 needs be bare existence, growth, active exercise, or re- 

 production. And it is one of the laws of animal being 



i that lusty strength 



to produce many 

 and vigorous prog- 

 eny rests on the 

 simple basis of 

 proper food, com- 

 bined with suffi- 

 cient free exercise. 

 The invigorating 

 and stimulating 

 power of exercise, 

 its warming, digest- 

 ing, and cleansing 

 powers, its preven- 

 tion of crop-bound, 

 diarrhoea, rheuma- 



Head of Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Male, Ap- 

 proaching the Ideal. Wattles Not So Well 

 Rounded As Standard Demands. Note Look 

 of Strength 



tism, cramps, and 



in young chicks, leg weakness, are a long list of credits ; 

 when we add that by keeping mind and body occupied, 

 it prevents the formation of bad habits, such as feather 

 pulling, comb picking, " cannibalism," egg eating, and 

 that it also prevents gorging and logy breaking down, 

 works off surplus fat, makes eggs more fertile and in- 

 sures stronger chicks, we have a table of values which 

 Beginners and old hands alike may well look over fre- 

 quently; lest they forget ! 



Every Beginner, who is raising his first flock, has three 



