POULTRY SECRETS REVEALED. 53 



Your stuffed and untimely fattened birds will go off their feed 

 In January. With impaired digestion, with every organ weakened 

 by the strain of over-feeding, your prize winners will throw you scrub 

 stock, if indeed they breed at all. More likely the best of them will 

 be dead by spring. Congestion in one form or another — for roup, bowel 

 troubles, acute indigestion, — these and other ills, are congestive — will 

 carry off the flower of your flock. 



In maturing your birds there is nothing better than a liberal feed- 

 ing of the Park & Pollard Scratch Grain in deep litter, with their 

 Growing Pood in hoppers. To the latter you might add their Fattening 

 Pood during the last week before your show birds go out — the ratio 

 being four quarts of Growing Food to one quart of Fattening Food. 

 Give them plenty of milk to drink, with grit and charcoal — mixing some 

 in the mash — and plenty of bulky green food — cabbage, alfalfa, beets, 

 etc., — and then let nature do the rest. 



