264 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901 

 RATION 2. 



Horning. — Two parts of ground oats, one part shorts, one part cornmeal, and a 

 small quantity of animal meal. The latter should be omitted when cut 

 bone is fed. Mix with hot water into mash and feed three times per 

 week, morning or afternoon. Dust in small quantity of black pepper and 

 I salt. Other mornings, cut bone or other form of meat. When mashed or 



1 cut bone is fed in the afternoon, grain should be fed instead at morning 



ration. 



RATION 3. 



Morning. — Mix into mash, wheat bran, 2 parts; ground oats, 14 parts; cornmeal, 

 ^th part. Season with salt and add half a teaspoonful of black pepper. 

 Feed three times per week. Start hens to exercise. 



Noon. — Small quantity of grain to keep fowls searching for it. 



Afternoon. — Same as No. 1. 



The above ration is recommended for egg production by Mrs. Judy, a well known 

 poultry keeper and writer on poultry subjects. 



RATION 4. 



The following ration was fed to a pen of White Plymouth Kocks, owned by Dr. 

 W. S. Stevens, of McChanistown, Ohio, and which pen won the prize offered by the 

 National Stockman, three years ago, for the largest yield of eggs per hen during the 

 year. The average number of eggs per hen is given at 289. 



Morning. — Equal parts of bran, wheat middlings, chopped corn and oats, with 

 some fine beef meal mixed in and the whole made into mash. 



Noon. — Wheat was thrown into the litter on the floor of the scratching shed to 

 keep hens busy. 



Evening. — Whole corn. 



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From April 1 to November 1 the same was fed, except that the morning mash 

 was mixed with cold water and wheat was given instead of corn. The greatest of 

 cleanliness was observed. 



It will be noticed in the above that the fowls had access to a scratching shed, 

 which climatic conditions permitted, and by which they received the benefits of change 

 of air and exercise during the winter season. 



RATION 5 



The following ration and manner of feeding it has been found effective in our 

 poultry department : — 



Mash— Shorts 2 parts 



Ground oats 1 



Cornmeal 1 



Small potatoes boiled • •• i 



The whole mixed with boiling water into a crumbly condition. This was fed in 

 proportion of one quart (Imperial), weighed dry, to 15 hens, three times per week, 

 in morning or afternoon. A little was fed to the pullets every day, but was found 

 at end of January to be fattening the Barred Plymouth Kocks, and the feeding was 

 reduced to three times per week and to the same quantity as fed to the hens. Gut 

 bone in proportion of 1 pound to every 15 hens other mornings, or, afternoons when 

 mash was not fed. 



