FOODS AND FEEDING 
good advantage. Waste bread and broken crack- 
ers can often be secured at small cost, and are 
nutritious and greatly relished by poultry. 
Animal foods in the ration are necessary to take 
the place of the bugs, worms and insects which the 
Animal hen would pick up in the course of her 
Foods daily ranging if unconfined. Green 
cut bone and ground beef scraps are the most com- 
mon feeds used in this connection. ‘‘ Animal 
meal,” ‘‘ bone meal’ and ‘‘dried blood” are the 
names of the three other common commercial feeds. 
Infertile or stale eggs can well be utilized as a 
poultry feed, feeding them hard-boiled or mixed 
raw inthe mash. Milk, whole or skimmed, sweet 
or sour, or buttermilk, is greatly relished by fowls 
and is very nutritious. It may well be used freely 
where available at low cost but care must be exer- 
cised to maintain satisfactory conditions of cleanli- 
ness in feeding. 
Fresh, tender grass and the new blades of grow- 
ing grain are greatly relished by fowls, especially 
if they are allowed to do their own 
harvesting, that is, pick at the green 
stuff right where it has grown. Lawn clippings are 
very good. All the varieties of clover and alfalfa 
are excellent, and these, as well as grass, may be 
stored away and cured in order to supply the fowls 
in winter. The material should be cut up fine and 
steamed when used, feeding it separately in troughs 
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