124 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



One advantage of this system of dry feeding from a hopper, 

 is that you can get along with less intelligent labor. Most 

 any man is intelligent enough to fill a hopper, but it requires 

 more or less of an expert to feed soft food. I have had men, 

 and they would overfeed or underfeed. If too much was placed 

 before the fowls, then it was left to sour and spoil, and, as a 

 consequence, I used to have fowls in the hospital a good deal 

 of the time. I have no use for that system now. The hens 

 are kept now under natural conditions. We are bound, of 

 course, to lose some under the best conditions. 



Question. I would like to ask the gentleman if he can 

 give us some more details of his houses and what they cost. 



Mr. TiLLiNGHA.ST. I think there are some papers here do- 

 ing that. I take quite a number of poultry papers. The 

 " Feather " is a good paper, and there is a picture here of the 

 colony houses, and instead of explaining the details, I thought 

 you would get a better idea if you took that and examined it. 

 You can then see the way it is built up. 



The President, I think, gentlemen, that we shall have 

 to leave this discussion temporarily. We have another gentle- 

 man who is going right on with the same subject. Mr. Hun- 

 ter is going to speak to us. We should be glad to have him 

 come forward and tell us about " Dry Feeding; the new Poul- 

 try Culture." 



DRY- FEEDING; THE NEW POULTRY CULTURE. 



By Mr. A. F. Hunter. 



For many years past there has been a growing dissatisfac- 

 tion with both the methods employed and the results attained 

 in our poultry work. The methods employed have involved an 

 excess of labor and the results attained have been, in far too 

 many cases, disappointing — the disappointments taking the 

 form of poor health of flocks of both mature birds and the 

 young chicks, resulting in a lowered egg-yield, increased mor- 

 tality, diminishing profits, and in very many cases an abandon- 



