Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management . ursafter the cracked corn is eaten, I give all the wheatscreenmgs the chicken will eat, and in another two hours,some oats. For supper they have all the cracked comand wheat they can eat. It is of the utmost importancethat the young birds should, at the close of the day, have 12 PROFITS IN POULTRY-. full GTOps ; for the nights in the winter and early springare long, and as soon as the chickens have digested alltheir food they stop growing for the time being. I alwaysmake it a point to feed them as late in the a
Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management . ursafter the cracked corn is eaten, I give all the wheatscreenmgs the chicken will eat, and in another two hours,some oats. For supper they have all the cracked comand wheat they can eat. It is of the utmost importancethat the young birds should, at the close of the day, have 12 PROFITS IN POULTRY-. full GTOps ; for the nights in the winter and early springare long, and as soon as the chickens have digested alltheir food they stop growing for the time being. I alwaysmake it a point to feed them as late in the afternoon asthey can see, aud as early in the morning. By the above described system of feeding, the chickensare constantly tempted by a variety of healthy food, andthe result is a rapid growth and perfect immunity fromdisease. If abundance of grass is not accessible to them,young chickens should have fed to them at least one meala day of giass and clover chopped fine with a pair ofscissors. In winter I give my chickens cabbages, throw-ing in whole heads for the birds to pick CHAPTEB II. .CONVENIENT AJND GOOD POULTRY HOUSEaA VERY CHEAP HEIf HOUSE. Experience has proved that twenty fowls, properlyhoused, provided witli suitable food, pure water, cleannest boxes, plenty of dust, lime in some form, and gravel,will return more clear profit than fifty, kept as they gen-erally are upon farms. Suggest a good poultry house tothe average farmer, and frequently there arises in hismind the image of an elaborate affair costing one hun-dred, to one hundred and fifty dollars. Not being ableto spare that amount for such a purpose, he goes without,and his poultry, exposed to the inclemencies of theprofitsinpoultry00fisk
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