The Eastern poultryman easternpoultryma410unse Year: 1903 154 THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. regular market price of fowls fattened on other foods. One of the most prosperous poultrymen I know grows about ti\ e acres of this grain each season; two acres of which he does not harvest but allows his fowls to run in as soon as the berry be- comes hard enough for food and these two acres constitute their run until snow fiies. This method of feeding would seem to have the opposite efltect than the one desired; but with him it is not the case. The flocks go into winter quarters in the finest condition pos
The Eastern poultryman easternpoultryma410unse Year: 1903 154 THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. regular market price of fowls fattened on other foods. One of the most prosperous poultrymen I know grows about ti\ e acres of this grain each season; two acres of which he does not harvest but allows his fowls to run in as soon as the berry be- comes hard enough for food and these two acres constitute their run until snow fiies. This method of feeding would seem to have the opposite efltect than the one desired; but with him it is not the case. The flocks go into winter quarters in the finest condition possible. The exercise of foraging for what tliey gel to eat gives added strength, and muscle and after their summer's partial confinement to limited runs, their diges- tion has been so improved as to make the close confinement of their winter quarters less injurious than otherwise would have been possible. Fowls fed on buckwheat have the advantage over corn fed flocks of more rapid assimilation. Their food is more readily converted into fat, bone and muscle making material. I understand that this is a mere statement, but the proofs will follow soon. Corn has a or flinty covering which of necessity must make it slow of digestion. The extra amount of labor put upon the organs of digestion must tell upon the economy and the rest required by the system after a prolonged effort of this character interferes with many of the other functions and as a matter of fact all of the other qualities of the fowl other than fat production is interfered with. Not so with buckwheat. As a single and in many cases the only ration seven months out of the twelve this food has produced eggs in surprising numbers. Plenty of Elbow Room To Work In. There is plenty of elbow room in the poultry business. There is no danger that it will be overdone, even if there are two hundred eighty-four million chickens in the United States, and they lay over ten billion eggs a year. The poultry business is
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