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to feed the beets is to split them and impale the pieces on spikes 

 in the wall at a convenient distance from the floor. Sound, 

 sweet turnips are also good, but bitter turnips and those that 

 have begun to spoil are likely to give an unpleasant flavor to 

 the eggs. A little freezing does not seem to affect the value of 

 these vegetables for poultry food, and the birds will usually eat 

 them when frozen. The quantity fed at one time, however, 



FIG. 87. Movable poultry house on United States Government farm, Beltsville, 

 Maryland. (Photograph from Bureau of Animal Industry) 



should not be so large that it may freeze and thaw several 

 times before it is all eaten. 



When hogs and cattle are killed on a farm, the blood and 

 other offal, and the small trimmings when the carcasses are 

 cut up, should be saved and fed to the fowls regularly in mod- 

 erate quantities, but care should be taken not to leave fat 

 trimmings where the fowls can help themselves, for if fowls 

 have been short of animal food, they eat meat very greedily 



