FEEDING FOR EGGS. 285 
Fish food is liable to cause bowel trouble, and should 
be fed only in small quantities. 
Bone meal is excellent for layers. One pound of bone 
meal per day is about right for fifty hens. 
Lawn clippings are good green food for poultry con- 
fined in summer, and good also as dry fodder in winter. 
Scraps of all kinds should be fed daily about the mid- 
dle of the day, when least liable to freeze. Bits of meat, 
soup bones, apple parings, cabbage leaves, celery tops 
and small onions, or almost any refuse from the cook, 
should be fed in a roomy box, where the fowls can kick 
it over with pleasure. Pulverized clam shells, raw or 
burned bones, with gravel, should always be accessible. 
The cracked bone can be purchased by the pound from 
many of the fertilizer companies, also the oyster shells, 
but nothing seems to suit the fastidious taste of some hens 
so well as the clam shells. A shallow box is a conven- 
ient receptacle for this food. The lights (lungs) of beef 
make excellent meat if boiled till very tender and chopped 
moderately fine. They are too tough if fed raw, and 
would only be wasted; they may be obtained from the 
butcher for very little cost, and will help much to fill 
the egg basket. Tallow scraps or lard scraps are good, 
and can sometimes be. purchased from a distant market, 
but there is some danger that the tallow was allowed to 
become tainted before trying, in which case the scrap 
might induce disease. 
Dried blood is fed by some poultry men, but is men- 
tioned with hesitation, because cases have been known 
of disease apparently caused by the hens eating the 
blood, which may have come from diseased animals. 
AMOUNT NEEDED. 
Experiments at the New York station resulted in 
the following statement of the amount of food consumed 
per day in winter for each fowl: 
