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not only furnish a succulent and appetizing substance, but 

 are_ much stronger in food values than the other green 

 foods. They are heavy yielders and excellent keepers. 

 When visiting a plant in Indiana recently in the month of 

 October, the writer was shown some m angel- wurzels which 

 had been stored in a root house twelve months and were 

 still in excellent condition for feeding. 



The Utility of Meat Foods. 



It is generally accepted as a fact that meat in some form 

 must be furnished if the best results in winter eggs are ex- 



A Temporary Scratching Shed Built in Front of an Ordinary Laying 

 House of the Continuous Type. 



pected. For this purpose ground fresh bone easily holds 

 first place in the estimation of the majority of poultry keep- 

 ers. Such material can be purchased from butchers at a 

 price ranging from a cent to one and one half cents a pound. 

 Sufficient meat usually clings to these bones so that when 

 ground it makes a food that is efficient and not too expen- 

 sive. Numerous mills are manufactured for grinding these 

 bones. These mills have been so perfected that the grind- 

 ing of sufficient bone to feed one hundred hens three times 

 a week is but the work of a few minutes and requires no 

 great muscular exertion. 



Those who cannot obtain fresh bone in sufficient quanti- 

 ties or who for any reason do not have time to prepare it, 



