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daily. This will keep them in good appetite and make 
them anxious to see you as soon as’tis time to leave 
their roost. Give them also, occasionally, in the cooked 
food, a quantity of bone meal or ground bone. 
For the other one or two meals a day—some feed only 
twice, others three times; young stock that are confined 
should have a light feed at noon, the heavier feed being 
FIG. 107. BROWN LEGHORNS. 
given at night just before going to roost—give them 
whole grain, making the variety as great as possible, and 
vary their meals as much as possible. No two meals 
alike in a day is a first-rate plan. Only feed Indian 
corn, whole or ground, once or twice a week, unless to 
fattening fowls. It is a poor egg food, but will put on 
fat quicker than any other. 
