62 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, [Jan., 



Up Monday nights and usually let them out the following Mon- 

 day morning. 



Question. In a separate house? 



Mr. Almy. No, we have a little rack, a strawberry crate, 

 or something of that kind, and set it outside where it will be 

 in a comfortable spot, and when I go to feed in the morning I 

 set a water pail there so that they can reach it, and at the end 

 of the week let them out. 



Question. When you let off from ten to twenty or forty 

 of these setting hens do you have somebody there to watch 

 them? I should think you would have trouble with them. 



Mr. Almy. No. If they are inclined to go back and all 

 pile into one nest, I shut the birds up and go off, say for fifteen 

 or twenty minutes, and they they are usually ready to go back. 

 If they bother me in that way, usually, I leave the birds alone, 

 and a majority of them, in the course of three or four days, 

 will go on themselves. There will be a few that you will have 

 to shut on. 



Question. If they do not go off by themselves you take 

 them off? 



Mr. Almy. I take them off every other day, anyway. 



Question. What do you use for green feed in the winter ? 



Mr. Almy. In the winter beside the mash I use cut clover 

 with rowen that we raise ourselves. I also feed either cabbage 

 or beets. We raise five or six hundred bushels of them. 



Question. Do you cut the beets up when you give them to 

 your hens ? 



Mr. Almy. I cut them in two in the middle, and feed 

 them about twice a week. 



Question. Do you ever feed apples? 



Mr. AImy. I will not say that I never have fed apples, 

 but very seldom. 



Mr. Graham. This may be an impertinent question, and 

 if it is I hope you will not answer it, but I would like to ask 



