CHAPTER XVI 



Beef Scrap and Green Bone Substitutes for Na- 

 ture's Animal Food 



Undoubtedly the ideal animal food for the hen, 

 if it were possible to procure it in sufficient quantities 

 the year round, would be angle worms, grasshoppers, 

 and other members of the insect family, which the 

 early Spring supplies in such liberal quantities. It 

 must be remembered that in these dififerent worms 

 and insects there is a large amount of phosphorous, 

 which adds very greatly to the ability of the hen to 

 successfully digest the large quantity of food which 

 is necessary, if she is to produce a large quantity of 

 eggs. 



Green Cut Bone Nearest Nature 



The thing, perhaps, nearest in an artificial way to^ 

 Nature's animal food, is green cut bone, and it isC 

 certainly relished by the hens, and a great assistance 

 in producing Winter eggs. The exercise of great care, 

 however, in the selection of bone is very necessary, 

 for, if salt bone, or tainted bone, is cut up and fed 

 to the fowls, it will prove most detrimental, and in 

 many instances will mean the loss of the hen. 



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