. Boone County Recorder . odIs given them they cannot grow boneand muscle, so feed them bran and cutoats or oatmeal and cut bone, aswell aa coarsely ground corn. Theymust also have food to some , sweat best scraps are all righttor tola, orpisesi of meat will begin laying before the coldweather. If they begin at thiB timethey will lay all winter, if they areput into a comfortable house beforethey become chilled in the fall and aregiven the right kind drone after-ward. I have never failed to raise a flockof good winter layers when I havecared for my pullets in this way. Altbdegh ^et sho
. Boone County Recorder . odIs given them they cannot grow boneand muscle, so feed them bran and cutoats or oatmeal and cut bone, aswell aa coarsely ground corn. Theymust also have food to some , sweat best scraps are all righttor tola, orpisesi of meat will begin laying before the coldweather. If they begin at thiB timethey will lay all winter, if they areput into a comfortable house beforethey become chilled in the fall and aregiven the right kind drone after-ward. I have never failed to raise a flockof good winter layers when I havecared for my pullets in this way. Altbdegh ^et should be fed aamuch as possible to hurry theirgrowth, they must not be fed enoughto cause Indigestion. They must begiven the habit of eating a great dealOf food* but must also be given a gooddigestion with which to handle it The ability to assimilate large quan-tities of food is absolutely necessaryfor a heavy layer. Aa an aid in helping them to digesttheir food and in growing muscle ex-ercise is very Important. If they are. FUNCTIONS OF FERTILIZERS Commercial or Artificial Article la Used to Increase Fertility Above Natural Capacity. (By C. W. COLVER, Assistant Chemist, Idaho Experiment Station.) Fertilizers are applied to the soil for two general purposes—to main- ala. and to increase fertility Chief among those fertilizers thatare used for maintaining the fertil-ity of the land Is barnyard is its main function, and justas long as the principal constitu-ents of the manure are all derivedfrom the soil it cannot increase itsfertility—at best, It can only main-tain its fertility. If, however, the barnyard manureIs obtained wholly or in part fromexternal sources it may increase fer-tility. Two such cases are plainlyevident. For examples,—when thebarnyard manure is purchased fromtown stables, as it is often done fortruck gardening near cities, or whenit la derived from fertilising ingredi-ents contained In oil cake or otherconcentrated feeding stuffs consumedby sto
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