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This includes potato parings and all trimmings from 

 vegetables. A good way to use this waste material 

 is to run it through a meat grinder. When that is 

 done, articles of food which ordinarily would not 

 be relished by the hens are eaten freely because 

 mixed with things which they like. 



Another plan is to keep a kettle on the back of 

 the stove, and to throw all the waste material in 

 it, using the contents after it has been cooked to 

 make a mash by mixing it with water, skimmed 

 milk, or meat liquor. The table scraps should be 

 fed at noon. 



If the poultry keeper happens to have a garden, 

 he can produce a large amount of vegetables and 

 green food that will go far toward reducing the 

 grain ration. One practical poultry keeper makes 

 a practise of running all sorts of garden waste 

 through a meat grinder, then adding a little grit, 

 and some wheat bran, with ten per cent, of meat 

 scraps, making this mixture into a mash. 



The vegetables particularly suited for feeding 

 poultry include mangels, red beets, turnips, cab- 

 bages, kale, and small potatoes. It is an excellent 

 plan to plant rape early in the spring, and again 

 in mid-summer. A few rows will keep the hens 

 in green stuff all summer, if only the mature leaves 



