A STUDY OF JUICY FEEDS 95 



If we were to put this into the form of a logical con- 

 clusion, as in school, we should finish : " Therefore, in 

 order to insure healthy fowls and a maximum product, 

 no poultryman can afford to allow the drinking water 

 to evaporate into thin air in summer or to congeal into 

 ice in winter. For, drinking water should be always 

 accessible to the fowls." 



Another imperative "therefore" is: Therefore, no 

 poultryman who wishes his fowls to pay a profit can 

 afford not to provide them either with liberty and nu- 

 tritious range, or else with abundance of juicy vegetable 

 growth in good variety, when under yarded conditions. 



A familiar example of making use of what one has 

 lies in the case of unsalable potatoes. If these can be 

 chopped till they are easy to swallow, and mixed 

 with a little bran, they may form an occasional ration 

 of which the fowls will become very fond and will add 

 both to their thrift and their productiveness. Beets of 

 any kind, cut in half and skewered against the wall at 

 one foot from the ground, or fed in a protected trough, 

 often prove reliable " first aids to health," and also to 

 productiveness. The beet pulp — a gray, chippy look- 

 ing stuff — which is a waste product from the manu- 

 facture of beet sugar, is a notably good feed for those 

 who must buy. It comes in large bags. We have paid 

 from $1, when it was less known, to ^1.35 at the present 

 time. The Experiment Stations say that, although it 

 does not analyze high in any essential element, all stock 

 thrives better with it than without it. 



A few hours' soaking will metamorphose a half-peck 

 of it into a half bushel, possibly, of attractive, juicy beet 

 shavings. The animals unite in decidedly favorable 



