Food for Fowls.

The farmer should not be so unreasonable as to expect poultry to pay without at least as careful feeding as other stock; the grain should not be inferior. Wheat, heavy oats, or barley, or buckwheat should be given. I change of grain does good. For a change, maize may be given, but not regulary, unless for fattening. Heavy oats is the best grain for laying-hens. Boil the grain occasionally.

For the soft food, pollard mixed with a little oatmeal or barley-meal. Bran may be used, but requires more meal mixed with it. Potatoes, carrots, Swedish turnips, mangolds, &c., boiled, are good, and mixed with pollard and meal help to make up bulk. Mix the soft food pretty dry.

In confinement, and in winter, the morning meal must be hot, and [unclear: ma] food should be given, Sheeps' heads and trotters, paunches and livers, blood, or any part of an animal usually wasted, may be boiled and cut up for them, and the liquor used to mix their food. In rabbit districts there should be no trouble about meat, but the rabbits must be cooked, or their flesh will scour the birds; and too much of it must not be given, soft bones smashed up small make a fair substitute for meat The water in which bones have been boiled is very nourishing.