. The Farm-poultry. er ficsh,or many times the natural number of a copious product demands (piickerdigestion, and a greater amount of food. Protecting Drinking and FeedingVessels. Troughs or vessels for larger numbers offowls—such as twenty-five birds kept in onelot for laying purposes -often need to be pro-tected, to keep the birds from walking overthe food. Loose covers arc best, supported onvertical bars or wires, as in Fig. 10. Thesecan be obtained of appliance manufacturers ingreat variety, to fit loosely over various formsof troughs. For a rather smaller number,troughs with a c
. The Farm-poultry. er ficsh,or many times the natural number of a copious product demands (piickerdigestion, and a greater amount of food. Protecting Drinking and FeedingVessels. Troughs or vessels for larger numbers offowls—such as twenty-five birds kept in onelot for laying purposes -often need to be pro-tected, to keep the birds from walking overthe food. Loose covers arc best, supported onvertical bars or wires, as in Fig. 10. Thesecan be obtained of appliance manufacturers ingreat variety, to fit loosely over various formsof troughs. For a rather smaller number,troughs with a cover hinged so as to fall back(Fig. 11) are more convenient. Somethingof this sort is lietter than an open troughwhenever more than five or six fowls are fedtogether,for the reason that if they are prop-erly hungry, they are too busy getting theirown heads through the wires to pay muchattention to driving others away. Such atrough, whether covered or not, must be largeenough for all the fowls to get to it at Figure 11. FROM THE BOOK OFPOULTRY. (By |)criiiissiiiii of tlie publislit-i-s). Interested Attention Essentialto Success. Success in poultry keeping, on the smallestscale or the largest alike, requires sufficientiiHtrested attention from some one qualifiedlogiveit. We have found uniformly duringmany years, that with rare exceptions wherethey themselves can be brought to take, ornaUirally take, a strong interest in the matter—such exceptions being worth their weightin gold—servants or laborers cannot be reliedupon for long together to food properly,lo give it carefully, to keep things clean, towork steadily, or to see to many other mattersfssential to economy or well being. If thereare children in the family old enough to under-t:ilicasinall stock, they will be alike benefitedmid pleased by looking after the fowl, andsoon grasp the proper ways of doing it. Ifnot, or on a larger scale, the owner must either»ee to things personally, or take such oversight«8
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