GO POULTRY FEEDING AND FATTENING 



true that some horses die from diseases whose flesh we 

 would not care to feed, but this would make but a 

 fraction of their number unsuitable for hen feed, for if 

 jwoperly attended to the great number that it becomes 

 necessary to kill because of injury tluough accidents, 

 and even the many who die from colic, if immediately 

 dressed, as well as the large proportion whose lives are 

 taken because they outgrow their usefulness, all these 

 can be more profitably utilized by sending them to the 

 hencoop rather than to the manure pile. Where the 

 poultry keeper lives near fertilizer works he has oppor- 

 tunities to secure his hen meat as he wants it and at 

 a very low figure." 



Fish and Turtle — When I get fish I cook it and 

 mix it with the mash, using less of the shorts. From 

 January to May I can get fish once and sometimes 

 twice a week. While pumpkins last I feed raw all the 

 fowls will eat, also cook and mix them with the mash. 

 I also have a pen in which I put muck and fresh fish. 

 The hens pick out the maggots as they come to the top 

 and I take the rest for fertilizer. I feed the young 

 chicks, until they are old enough to leave the brooder, 

 ground parched corn with a little shorts and all the 

 insects and worms I can find. Fresh water, in iron 

 dishes, is kept where they can got it all the time, and 

 it is changed several times each day. I often dust 

 laying and sitting hens witli flowers of sulphur and 

 have no lice or fleas to speak of at any time of year. 

 I sometimes find a soft-shelled turtle, which I cook, 

 chop up and mix thoroughly with shorts. Fish I some- 

 times feed raw, chopping it very fine and mixing with 

 shorts. I grind cabbage in a meat chopper and mix 

 with shorts for the little chicks in the brooder. — 

 [D. D. Doane, Florida. 



Whey Cream — One day, noticing chickens standing 

 on the edge of the whey tul) and pecking at the dried 



