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Now on a place of fifty acres of fruit, instead of buying 

 fertilizers, commercial fertilizers, fine bone, and such things, 

 I would not bring the fertility of the west here to the east, 

 but I would buy my corn by the carload and let the hens grind 

 it. Also feed the cracked bone and let the hens grind it. They 

 will grind it finer than any mill can do, and give it back to you 

 in a more available form for plant food. So in this way we 

 have a double profit. We have no fertilizer bills. 



Question. I would like to ask Mr. Tillinghast if he has 

 ever used the stuffing process. 



Mr. Tillinghast. I never have. 



Question. Do you consider it any advantage to feed warm 

 food once a day to your poultry? 



Mr. Tillinghast. Why no. Not any great advantage, 

 and yet if I had certain material that I wanted to get rid of, if 

 I could not feed it well in a hopper, perhaps in the winter if I 

 had help that was not doing anything, I could feed it that way. 

 I would not want to feed it to breeding stock. I prefer to feed 

 the flock as much as possible from the hopper. About twenty 

 years ago, when I commenced, I was away from home a good 

 deal through the day, and did not reach home at night until 

 four or five o'clock. At that time I found my poultry was all 

 on the roost. It was too late to feed them. I used to get up 

 at five o'clock in the morning and give them a hot food. I 

 thought I had to do it. And then at noon I gave them some 

 kind of grain to scratch for, and at night I used to give them 

 corn. That practice was not very satisfactory. I conceived 

 the idea of making a kind of hopper. I had a little boy about 

 five or six years old, who was old enough to do what I told him 

 as near as he could. I put the grain in the hopper, and had the 

 little boy, about three o'clock, go out and open the door to the 

 hopper. His mother would send him down to open that door. 

 The hens could get it at that time and go on the roost with 

 full crops. 



