. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. ow and fatten more rapidly than if deprived of pluck, refuse meat from the butcher, such as the lights of beef, make excellent food when boiled tender and chopped. Rough tallow,chopped fine, and drippings from meat are alsogood to mix with scalded corn meal as the chicksget older. Skimmed milk is better than water tomix with the corn meal. Cracked corn, or wheatscreenings, scalded, come next in order, and maybe given when the chickens are
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. ow and fatten more rapidly than if deprived of pluck, refuse meat from the butcher, such as the lights of beef, make excellent food when boiled tender and chopped. Rough tallow,chopped fine, and drippings from meat are alsogood to mix with scalded corn meal as the chicksget older. Skimmed milk is better than water tomix with the corn meal. Cracked corn, or wheatscreenings, scalded, come next in order, and maybe given when the chickens are old enough todigest it. A pailful of corn or wheat should becovered with boiling water in which a large table-spoonful of salt has been dissolved and left tostand covered until it is cold. Cayenne pepper should be added if the weather is cold orwet. Rice is also an excellent diet for chickens. An inferior quality known to the trade as broken rice is just as good for this purpose, and it requires so little for food that theexpense is not much greater in the Northern States than corn-meal, while at the South it willbe the cheapest feed no. 1. BARREL COOP.
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