The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical . become nearly aspalatable as when fresh, by running it through a cutter and thenscalding, steaming or boilng it. Several dairymen who have en-silage and hens, report the perfect agreement of the two. Allkinds of chopped vegetables help make summer in a chickensheart and in the egg basket. Beets, rather fattening, are relish-ed like beef. Turnips are a little more nutritious and cabbage isespecially rich. Our crab apples are carefully gathered in au-tumn, and chopped at intervals for the hens, a
The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical . become nearly aspalatable as when fresh, by running it through a cutter and thenscalding, steaming or boilng it. Several dairymen who have en-silage and hens, report the perfect agreement of the two. Allkinds of chopped vegetables help make summer in a chickensheart and in the egg basket. Beets, rather fattening, are relish-ed like beef. Turnips are a little more nutritious and cabbage isespecially rich. Our crab apples are carefully gathered in au-tumn, and chopped at intervals for the hens, and our refuse cran-berries are boiled with their potatoes. FOOD AND DRINK. 119 I hardly know how to class our butternuts. We have manytrees, and crack many nuts lor the hens, which enjoy the frolic,and pick the shells perfectly clean. Walnuts, related to butter-nuts, are used in England to give poultry a fine flavor. The secret of winter laying is an imitation of summers con-ditions, when everybodys hens lay. Variety of food, is a sum-mer characteristic. Three of my neighbors have each adopted a. A Head of Cabbage May be Suspended so High That the Fowls Can Reach It by Jumping For It, and Will Then Furnish Green Food and Exercise At the Same Time. hotel in town, whore they keep boxes for scraps. Beware offish bones, however, if you enter such a scheme. To variety offood, I ascribe my hens good egg yield, about 140 apiece peryear, with a fair count and no favors, and that in two largeflocks cf 50 each; also general good health of my flocks, once forsix months of cold weather there being not a death nor touch ofsickness, nor any vices developed. At the Cornell Station, a com-pany of nens v/ere fed on nitrogenous foods, like cabbage, cloverand oats, another company on carbonaceous, like corn and pota-toes. Large and finely flavored eggs came from the latter. Theformer produced more in number, bat small and of poor keepingqualities. Good as onions are for the liver, and rich as fis
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