SPECIAL FOODS bto 



to good advantage among tlie poultry, serving the pur- 

 pose of meat, the oil in the nuts being of the same 

 nature. Crack them rather tine and the fowls will 

 pick the shells clean in a short time. — [Marion Meade, 

 Illinois. 



Odds and Ends — Nothing excels the scraps which 

 accumulate on the table, including, as they generally 

 do, vegetables, meat, etc. A farmer's table yields in 

 the course of a year a large amount of bones, which, 

 when ground or chopped fine, produce food far more 

 valuable than grain for egg production. 



Various Foods — Old or damaged cheese is a good 

 egg food. Popped corn from the factories is a cheap 

 food, being equal to raw corn, pound for pound. If 

 the corn is sugared, so much the better for fattening. 

 Refuse bread, cake and crackers make convenient food 

 for chicks and take the place of as many pounds of 

 grain. Scorched grain at about two-thirds full price 

 will do for a part of the ration, if not so badly burned 

 that part will be left on the ground. Grain screenings 

 are of doubtful value for fowls, but chicks will eat 

 most of the seeds. 



Ground tankage from tallow and fertilizer fac- 

 tories is the cheapest animal food, but if tainted or 

 diseased, will cause trouble. The same may be said 

 of dried blood. Eaw lights and offal from the 

 slaughter house often cause disease, but are safe if 

 cooked thoroughly. If fed raw, care should be taken 

 to examine before feeding for traces of disease. 



Gluten meal is made from the chit or nitrogenous 

 part of the corn grain and is the refuse from the 

 manufacture of cornstarch. It contains nearly thirty 

 per cent nitrogenous matter, whereas the pure corn 

 meal contains only about nine per cent. Cottonseed 

 meal and linseed meal of course are entirely different 

 articles, but they are both very rich, cottonseed meal 



