FEEDING OF FOWLS SI 



Food Parts 



Corn meal 6 



Ground oats 6 



Meat scrap 1 



This mixture should be slightly moistened and mixed 

 until it assumes a crumbly state. During the last 10 

 da. of feeding the" quantity of meat in the ration should 

 be doubled. 



In the evening the geese should be fed all they will 

 eat of a ration composed, by measure, as follows: 



Food Parts 



Cracked corn boiled until soft 1 



Corn meal 1 



Wheat middlings 1 



FEEDING OF WILD WATER FOWLS 



Where wild water fowls have the freedom of a large 

 enough pasture, they will graze the greater part of 

 their living, but it is always advisable to keep near at 

 hand covered hoppers where the fowls may help them- 

 selves at will. For mature ducks and geese, the hopper 

 should be kept filled with a dry mixture composed, by 

 measure, as follows: 



Food Parts 



Ground oats 1 



Cracked corn 1 



Wheat bran , 1 



FEEDING OF PIGEONS 



The grains most suitable for feeding to pigeons are 

 wheat, corn, buckwheat, barley, peas, vetch seed, hulled 

 oats, millet, rice, hemp seed, and canary seed. No large 

 quantity of buckwheat, barley, hulled oats, or Kafir 

 corn, should be fed to pigeons, because these grains 

 contain a large percentage of crude fiber. 



