Chapter XXXYI. 



Proper Food for Fowls — Fattening fob Market — Killing — Packing — Pre- 

 serving and Packing Eggs — Proper Kinds of, Food. i 



NEVER stint nor ever overfeed. Stinting means a lack of 

 enotigh material for the making of eggs, or flesh, or bone. 

 Adequate food, with proper feeding, repairs the waste of the 

 vital forces, and gives a profit in warmth, or bone, or flesh, or eggs. 

 If you give too little of some of the forms of lime to make bone, then 

 just so far will the frame-work of the fowl fall short of perfection. If 

 you feed too little of that kind of food containing albumen and, oil, 

 then you cut off the egg supply. If you overfeed, the organs of 

 assimilation that change the food to other profitable products, be- 

 come overworked and break down, and disease follows in varied 

 forms. Feed for the purpose you have in view, according to the 

 season, the weather, and the breed, remembering always that food 

 for one purpose may be harmful for another. Feed more in ; stormy 

 weather than when the weather is fine. The larger breeds consume 

 more food than the smaller, and good foragers require less than 

 those that range little. Hens require less when sitting than when 

 laying, and fowls usually require most in moulting time. Chickens 

 must be fed fat-producing food if for an early market, and bone and 

 muscle making food if for a later age. 



Below we give Dr. Wright's table of food elements. 



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