FOODS AND FEEDING 



good advantage. Waste bread and broken crack- 

 ers can often be secured at small cost, and are 

 nutritious and greatly relished by poultry. 



Animal foods in the ration are necessary to take 

 the place of the bugs, worms and insects which the 

 Animal hen would pick up in the course of her 



Foods daily ranging if unconfined. Green 



cut bone and ground beef scraps are the most com- 

 mon feeds used in this connection. " Animal 

 meal," " bone meal " and "dried blood " are the 

 names of the three other common commercial feeds. 

 Infertile or stale eggs can well be utilized as a 

 poultry feed, feeding them hard-boiled or mixed 

 raw in the mash. Milk, whole or skimmed, sweet 

 or sour, or buttermilk, is greatly relished by fowls 

 and is very nutritious. It may well be used freely 

 where available at low cost but care must be exer- 

 cised to maintain satisfactory conditions of cleanli- 

 ness in feeding. 



Fresh, tender grass and the new blades of grow- 

 ing grain are greatly relished by fowls, especially 



if they are allowed to do their own 

 Green Foods . . , . . t t 



harvesting, that is, pick at the green 



stuff right where it has grown. Lawn clippings are 

 very good. All the varieties of clover and alfalfa 

 are excellent, and these, as well as grass, may be 

 stored away and cured in order to supply the fowls 

 in winter. The material should be cut up fine and 

 steamed when used, feeding it separately in troughs 



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