Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1891 — THE POULTRY YARD. [ARTICLE]

THE POULTRY YARD.

Don’t Stuff the Bent. The capacity of a heu is limited. If yon clog the machinery It will not work well 4f you fill her with food that is unsuitable she will only store up the surplus, waiting for the substances that are necessary to complete the product, and in so doing she does not lay. Food that is unbalanced will, of course, be readily eaten, but nature cannot be cheated. The excess will be voided and wasted; or if it abounds in the heat-producing element (the eheapest and most easily procured), she has the power to convert It into fat, which is an obstruction to laying; but when her ratton is balanced, she is compelled to lay eggs, because she cannot store tip a supply in any manner over and above the requisite amount required for the eggs.—Farm and Fireside.