. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, November 16, 1907. SCIENTIFIC FEEDING. "Give your fowls sulphur occasi- onally; put tincture of iron in their drinking water, often; also occasional- ly put a small lump of stone lime in their drinking water; as iron, lime and sulphur are necessary for egg production and formation. Just such advice starts beginners on the wrong track, writes J. H. Davis in the Petaluma Poultry Jour- nal. Nature supplies fowls with everything necessary for the pro- duction of eggs. There is lime, sul- phur and iron in grasses and plants
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, November 16, 1907. SCIENTIFIC FEEDING. "Give your fowls sulphur occasi- onally; put tincture of iron in their drinking water, often; also occasional- ly put a small lump of stone lime in their drinking water; as iron, lime and sulphur are necessary for egg production and formation. Just such advice starts beginners on the wrong track, writes J. H. Davis in the Petaluma Poultry Jour- nal. Nature supplies fowls with everything necessary for the pro- duction of eggs. There is lime, sul- phur and iron in grasses and plants as well as in grains, and fowls which get plenty of grass feed, get all the constituents required for their health and for the natural duties devolving on them in a state of demestication. Turnips, onions, cabbage, cauli- flower, water-cress, blue-grass, alfalfa and some other plants and vegetables contain sulphur. In potatoes we get potash, while water-cress, spinach, beans, peas, beets, celery, parsley, mustard and tomatoes contain salts of potassium and iron. Clover and grasses generally con- tain lime. It is hard to find a plant, grass or vegetable which does not contain some of these necessary re- quisites for the well being of man, bird, fowl and beast. If food did not contain the chemical properties need- ed, animal life could not exist. Our fruits contain acids and salts in varied proportions and of different kinds. Nature has done the work thoroughly, and nature cannot be im- proved upon by any of the tinkerers who profess to write scientifically (?) on things of which they are dense- ly ignorant. How foolishly inconsistent and un- necessary to be giving fowls drug preparations under the impression that nature is lacking and does not provide the things it should as con- stituent parts of food for fowl life. And this is what the "scientific" peo- ple are doing who scribble so much about phosphates, lime, potash, sul- phur, iron and a lot of other rot, which pu
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