CHAPTER IX 



FEEDING FOE EGGS AND FOR MEAT 



THE successful poultry-keeper recognizes that 

 not all kinds of wholesome poultry food which 

 the market affords are equally well suited to his 

 fowls which he keeps for the production of either 

 eggs or meat. He lays great stress on the careful 

 selection of food for the making of special products. 



FEEDING FOR EGGS 



If one desires to feed economically for egg pro- 

 duction, .and has learned little or nothing from 

 experience, a most valuable lesson may be learned 

 from nature. It will be observed that those fowls 

 which are more or less neglected, and, conse- 

 quently, not so far removed from the natural 

 state, lay most abundantly in the spring. In this 

 respect, then, the poultry-keeper may profitably 

 aim, so far as it lies within his power, to prolong 

 the spring throughout the year. In the spring 

 these fowls are at liberty to roam at will and to 

 find abundant green food in the tender shoots 

 of grass and other plants. They find meat food in 



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