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using this method to any extent on his poultry plant at the 

 present time. I have kept poultry more or less for some time, 

 and twenty-five per cent, of my hens are laying now, but I am 

 not feeding them snow for drink. 



Mr. TiLLiNGHAST. I would advise the gentleman to try 

 one pen with the same method, to give one pen snow and the 

 others water. Perhaps the first day the snow might not have 

 the desired effect. I think a hen wants to get used to the con- 

 dition, perhaps, or to the use of snow. I will guarantee, how- 

 ever, that you will get eggs from snow. A gentleman came to 

 my place about two years ago. He had about a hundred hens. 

 He was not getting the eggs he should. I showed him some 

 pens that had not had anything but snow all winter, and I was 

 getting about two-thirds from those pens. I said to him, " If 

 you will follow my prescription, you will get eggs in two weeks' 

 time." " Why," he said, " I will do anything." I asked 

 him how he fed his hens. He said he carried down some warm 

 water about eight or nine o'clock in the morning, and then he 

 gave them some potato peelings and such, and then scattered 

 a little corn in the winter. " Why," I says, " your hens are 

 half starved." " Why," he says, " they tell me»there is danger 

 in getting them too fat." I told him to get a bag of wheat 

 screenings, and a bag of scraps, and to give them all the corn 

 at night they would eat; to never mind about the hot water, 

 but to open the little door so that they could help themselves 

 to snow. I asked him to try that plan and then report. The 

 next time I saw him he said he was getting eggs from the 

 hens and had not watered them at all. 



Secretary Brown. I do not think the speaker has answered 

 the question of the gentleman from Morris. The gentleman 

 from Morris asked Mr. Tillinghast if he pursued the methods 

 that he would pursue if he was a boy again. 



Mr. Tillinghast. Why, that would be self-evident. Any 

 method that I would pursue with the information I have 

 gained by experience and observation I would certainly pur- 



