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large range and the weather is favorable so that they may run about, 

 they need only two meals of grain and one of moist mash a day. They 



can always come back to the 

 dry mash if they get hungry. 

 Beginning with the first meal 

 green food should be supplied, 

 but the hen will soon teach 

 the chickens to peck tender 

 pieces of clover and the like 

 if she is allowed to range with 

 the brood. 



When the chickens are about 

 eight weeks old, the grain and 

 ground food may be fed from 

 a large feed hopper from which 

 they may help themselves at 

 any time. The grain mixture 

 may consist of equal parts of 

 wheat and cracked corn. The chickens should also have free access to 

 cracked bone, fine grit, screened oyster shell, and charcoal. 



Give plenty of fresh, clean water in a vessel into which the chickens 

 cannot jump. Ordinarily a water fountain is used for the purpose. 



A serviceable water fountain can be made from a pint basin and a tomato 

 can that does not leak. Cut half-inch notches in the edge of the can on 

 opposite sides. Fill the can with water, cover with the inverted basin, 

 then tiim the whole thing over, holding basin and can tightly together. 

 The water will run into the basin, but not overflow. If the basin does 

 not become full enough cut the notches higher. 



An outdoor hopper for fecdirg mash, grain, grit, 

 and bone meal 



IX. FEEDING FOR WINTER EGGS 



C. A. Rogers 



Does it ever occur to boys and girls that fowls are fond of a variet}' of 

 food? This is especially so when the weather becomes cold and they are 

 shut up in their pens. Then they are away from the fields where in summer 

 they can nearly gain a living on the bugs, scattered grain and seed, and 

 grass. It is true that they will subsist, even in the winter, on corn and 

 water given them at irregular intervals, but under such care they cannot 

 lay eggs. Notice how much better you feel after eating a meal of whole- 

 some, well-cooked food that you Hke. Fowls are just as partial, and 

 respond when well fed. There is no one method of feeding that can be 

 applied equally well under all conditions. The method described in the 

 following paragraphs, however, may be followed to advantage under many 



