FOOD FOR POULTRY. 



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will be needed. The following table has been often copied 

 since its first publication by Mr. Tegetmeier, but its practical 

 usefulness is so obvious that we make no apology for giving 

 it here, with some modification to make the proportion of 

 warmth-giving to flesh-forming ingredients more plain, and 

 with the analyses corrected up to date. 



To show the practical use of this table, it may be 

 observed that whilst "sharps" or "middlings," from its 

 flesh-forming material, is one of the best summer in- 

 gredients, in winter it may be advantageous for light fowls 

 to change it for a portion of Indian meal. It is, however, 

 necessary to avoid giving much maize to large fowls, either 

 as meal or corn, else the effect will be a useless and pre- 

 judicial fattening from the large quantity of oil and starch it 

 contains ; it is best mixed with sharps or pea-meal, and is 

 then, for the lighter breeds, an economical and useful food. 

 Potatoes, as already remarked, are also not good in quantity 

 as a regular diet for poultry ; but mixed with bran or sharps 

 will be found useful in due proportion, as above noted. The 

 smaller and lighter breeds may have more of fattening foods 



