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Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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if they had anabundance. But they are more easily satisfied than might be supposed fromthe voracity which they exhibit when fed by hand. It has been found thatthere is considerable economy in feeding wheat, corn, and barley well boiled,as the grain is thus increased in bulk one-fourth, and the same bulk seems tosatisfy them; but there is no saving in boiling oats, buckwheat, or rye. Pota-toes are an excellent and economical article for feeding fowls; but if they arefed upon them alone, without grain, they are apt to produce scouring. Pota-toes should always be fed boiled, and warm, but not hot enough to burn themouth of the fowl. They should also be broken or mashed a little, for whenone is thrown to them whole they seem to mistake it for a stone, and will oftenleave it untouched, while they will pounce eagerly upon it if the skin is brokenso that they can see the white of the interior. Any kind of boiled vegetablesare excellent food for fowls, but they are not fond of raw vegetables.
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A BARN-YARD.See Note 5. LIVE-STOCK, AND ITS OPPORTUNITIES. 129 •; Fowls eat readily grass, and many kinds of plants and leaves. They relishthe leaves of lettuce, endive, spinach, and cabbage, but reject those of the straw-berry, celery, parsnip, carrot, and potato. Fowls are fond of all sorts of the ref-use of the table and kitchen, such as crumbs of bread, fragments of pastry, bitsof spoiled fruit, and apple-parings. There is perhaps no species of insect which fowls will not eat. They arevery fond of flies, beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, and every sort of worm, grub,and maggot. From this, and from the eagerness with which they pounce uponany scrap of meat which they can discover, it might be supposed that they aremore carnivorous than graminivorous. But the fact is, that this arises from thefact that animal food is in general the exception in their regular diet, and is,therefore, a dainty. Feed a fowl mainly upon meat, and it will show the samevoracity for grain. But advantage ca

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