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fresh bone quickly sours, and is not easy to feed 

 wisely, it is better for the amateur to depend on the 

 dried bone, which can be fed freely from the hopper 

 without dangef. 



Take care to get the coarse cracked bone, as 

 large as cracked com. There is a fine, hard, almost 

 polished bone, often sold, which appeals little to 

 potdtiy and is not much eaten. Rendering plants 

 always have the proper bone. Buy a bag at a 

 time. 



Be careful to serve bone in a hopper where the 

 hens can not scatter it about, as they will do so if 

 they can* A pint thrown into the tray of the dry- 

 mash hopper every day or two, as fast as eaten, 

 will be cleaned up without waste* 



It is of the greatest importance to keep grit, 

 shell, and bone clean. Put the hoppers up, away 

 from flying litter, and empty the- box onto the 

 floor when the contents become dusty. 



Green Food. — From the day the pullets go into 

 winter quarters till they start off for market, 

 green food of some sort should be provided. 

 Where there are less than twenty hens the vege- 

 tables from the kitchen will go far toward supply- 

 ing this need Cabbage, turnip, beet, carrot, 



