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feed my laying or sitting hens or growing chickens is- what I 

 use mixed with ground oats, equal parts by measure : this mix- 

 ture is reduced still more by mixing two parts coarse shorts, 

 and one part wheat, whole (by measure) ; or, in place of the 

 wheat, use oats, barley, or buckwheat. And I feed ground 

 beef-scraps two quarts to ten of grain, also one quart fine 

 charcoal, or a spoonful of wood-ashes, stirring the mass thor- 

 oughly before wetting. I mix with boiling water. In warm 

 weather I mix in morning, and let it stand till two o'clock 

 P.M., and feed as m}'- last grain-feed for the day : I feed raw 

 vegetable food of some kind after this is eaten up all the 

 fowls or chicks will eat. 



In cold weather I mix my feed in same way just at night, 

 cover it up, and in a moderately warm place it will be warm 

 for morning feed. I use the coarse part of coarse cracked 

 Southern corn two parts, two parts of good quality wheat, 

 oats, barley, or buckwheat, and one quart of ground oyster- 

 shells, to ten quarts of the grain, for morning feed in warm 

 weather, and an afternoon feed in cold weather. I keep a 

 good deal of coarse litter, leaves, hay, straw, or weeds, as 

 case may be, in rooms, and scatter my dry feed around 

 amongst it, allowing a small handful to a full-grown fowl, and 

 the same to two half-grown chicks. I feed a quantity of raw 

 feed after the dry, same as after the scalded, and see that all 

 the fowls and chickens, except those that are fattening, have 

 clean, fresh water after their morning and afternoon feed. I 

 give the fattening fowls or chicks raw food once or twice a 

 week, and water same or not, as case may be. If they are 

 ■fed on scalded or wet up food or swollen grain, they don't 

 need water. I think it pays to grind or soak and swell all 

 grain before feeding. And I have the best luck with cooked 

 food for fattening poultry. 



F. J. Kinney, Chairman. 



