Varied Diet For Poultry

H. M. H., Middletown, Ct.- Corn is the ahenpest and bost food for fowls, if wo we to name 011e article. They like it better than iuiy otbur grain, and it probably must alwïjpa-le the main dependencc in tbis country in keeping poultry. But tliore must be variety. Hens are as ■■mnivorous, pcrhaps, as any animal in the world, man excepted. Wo all know how distasteful a uniform diet is to ourRclves. The appetite, both in men and brutos, is detorniined by the varying state of the systcm, and a kind of food tnat Í8 craved at one time will be rejected at nnothcr. AVheat, buckwheat, and oats must have a place on the diet list. The latter are best ground. Wheat-bran is excellent. Hens soon tiro of cooked grain, bat it should be fed part of the time. Kvery day in tho yoar, when fowls do not have access to grass, fiesh vi'ctnble f 'Od should be alldwed.. and a small quantity of nn'at if there i not, insect forage. Corn should preponderóte Sr growing ehickens, becausc the cheapest?, and for fattoning fowls, but for layer whfrtti feuld occupy a prominent piaee.