This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...sufficient food during the year, and change of cocks every spring. In summer, with the range they have, his fowls secure a good supply of animal food from the fields, in worms, grubs, bugs, grasshoppers, &c. They are also supplied at all seasons with the refuse scraps from the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Leland says: "Egg-making is no easy work, and hens will not do much of it without high feed. They need just what a man who works requires--wheat bread and meat." He feeds wheat, even when it costs $2 per bushel. No old nests are allowed. After each brood is hatched the boxes are taken out and whitewashed inside and out, and after lying in the suu and rain a few days they are half filled with clean straw and returned for use. The old straw is burned. Each of the 250 to 300 hens on...