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The food should be varied during each week by using different 

 combinations of meal, shorts, bran, etc.. for the morning meal, and 

 the different grains for evening. 



It is a good plan to sow plats of Egyptian wheat, Dourra corn, 

 German millet, rural branching sorghum, or millo maize, sorghum 

 cane, field peas and chufas, for pasturage. With such plats accessi- 

 ble to the poultry no more feeding will be necessary than just 

 enough to keep them gentle, and to collect them daily to be counted 

 and examined. These crops will come into use in succession from 

 July until mid-winter. The chufas will not be noticed by the 

 poultry until all of the seed of the other plants have been con- 

 sumed. After the tops of the chufas die down, a few bunches 

 should be upturned to attract the attention of the chickens. When 

 they once learn where to find them they will continue to scratch 

 for them as long as a nut can be found. 



With these crops and small grain accessible to the fowls, very 

 little feeding will be necessary, and the poultry will be more 

 healthy than when they are abundantly fed at regular intervals 

 without such range. 



Pure fresh water should be always accessible to the poultry in 

 either iron, stone or earthenware vessels. 



If disinfectants or tonics are necessary they can be very easily 

 and conveniently administered through the water. 



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