VEGETABLE FOOD FOR POULTRY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2067, 8 October 1880, Page 2

VEGETABLE FOOD FOR POULTRY.

Any of tho roots—as potatoes, rutabagas, turnips, carrots, &e.—» hen bailed and mixed with corn and rye meal make an excellent and economical daily food for poultry. In this form fowls are fond of the diet, sad it works very kindly with them. Most experienced breeders think it necessary to dole out dry grain only to their chickens, generally whole com, from year's end to year’s end. And where large numbers of fowls are kept it is often considered too troublesome to supply cojked vegetables for the fowl stock, the dry feed system being tho handiest, of course.

But there is nothing that is so great a help to the poulterer, first and last, either in the cost or through the benefits to be derived to the stock, as regular feed every day of cooked vegetables. We have triad this practically for years, and we have found it highly advantageous, as compared with any other method of feeding. Tr.era are other kinds of vegetables also, which are quite as valuable as are the root* mentioned for use among poultry in their season. The loaves of turnips or carrots, raw cabbages at any tin e of the year, green corn in the ear, &0., may be given to poultry freely, and these will all ha relished. Bat if at least one-half of all the food given them be of mb* sort of vegetable, and green, fowls will constantly be found in better thrift and in finer oondit.on than when fed in any other way«