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of the fowls to have more grains. Birds kept enclosed in 

 fowl-house and yards should have three meals a day ; others, 

 one or two according to the circumstances. Very healthy 

 village fowls pick up all their food themselves and they are 

 not fed. The morning feed should be of a soft nature^. SAicJi 

 as rice-dust (kunra] and water, or cooked rice and -dal, .and tbe 

 evening meal should consist only of dry grain. A seasoning 

 of salt and pepper to the morning meal of mash, or rice and 

 ddl, keeps the fowls in very good condition. The rejections 

 from the kitchen or the table make excellent morning feed 

 for fowls. The best grain to use for the evening meal is 

 buck-wheat, which has the effect of stimulating the egg-lay- 

 ing power of hens and ducks. There should be plenty of 

 grass in the yard where birds have their run, as they are 

 benefited by liberal grazing. But if the supply pf grass is 

 scanty, the fowls and ducks must be supplied with green 

 food, such as cabbage or carrot leaves &c. 



(12) Fowls must never be left without a constant supply 

 of good drinking water which they may drink at their pleasure. 

 When any epidemic such as fowl-cholera (Guti) is raging, 

 the vessel of water should have a few grains of powdereo! 

 sulphate of iron mixed with it, enough to give a very slight 

 metallic taste to the water. This is an excellent way of 

 preventing guti. 



(13) The eggs should be collected from each fowl-hou^e 

 twice a day. 



(14) Not counting the chickens that are hatched out of 

 eggs, each fowl-house with five hens in it, should produce 

 500 eggs per annum. If these can be sold for 100 annas or 

 Rs. 6-14 as., the birds should pay for their keeping. But if 

 they have to be fed altogether with purchased food, three 

 times a day, it does not pay keeping fowls, unless one goes 

 in for breeding high class fowls, which should be the aim of 

 the owner from the very first. 



(*5) Egg s should be brooded in as fresh a state as pos- 



