FATTENING BROILERS 103 
HOME MIXED GRAIN FEEDS 
Below is one, but the main idea is to give 
the fowls some fattening food they will relish 
and not tire of. Birds when reduced in their 
exercise are likely to lose their appetites. 
When that time comes they should be sold, 
as just then they will not add weight any 
faster than if allowed free range. Six parts 
of corn meal, two each of middlings and 
beef scrap and hal! a part linseed meal, mixed 
with milk or warm water and fed all the 
fowls will eat three times a day. The 
troughs must be removed as soon as the 
fowls are through feeding. As previously 
stated, I cannot seem to get much decided 
increase in weight, perhaps because my 
chickens are fed all they want when growing, 
and soon seem to go off their feed when 
placed in confinement on a mash feed. 
Broiler raising and fattening is really a 
special branch of the business, so the be- 
ginner cannot hope to obtain even a good 
knowledge of all the lines of the poultry busi- 
ness in one year. He is again advised not 
to attempt too many things that might 
interfere with the more important part— 
the development and care of his pullets and 
hens. The time and study spent on the 
