PROGRESSIVE POULTRY RAISING 



Feeding Contrary to the general belief, there 



Laying Hens is no one ration which is better than 



all the rest and which is a guarantee 



of egg production. As much depends 



upon how a ration' is fed as upon what the ration contains. 



The following ration taken from the Purdue University 



Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 218 has 



been widely used and has given most excellent results. 



It has the very great advantage of being quite simple. 



GRAIN 



Corn 10 Ibs. 



Wheat 10 Ibs. 



Oats 5 Ibs. 



MASH 



Bran 5 Ibs. 



Shorts 5 Ibs. 



Meat Scraps 3.5 Ibs. 



Where there is plenty of skim milk available, it may 

 be used to replace the meat scrap, if given as a drink. 

 The following routine in feeding laying hens taken from 

 Lippincott's Poultry Production has proved successful 

 in a large number of cases : 



"In the morning give a light feed of grain, soon after 

 the birds leave the perch. This should be scattered in 

 a deep litter of straw to every part of the pen so that 

 the birds will be compelled to scratch vigorously for 

 some hours in order to search it all out. Fresh water 

 should be supplied in the morning. 



"At noon as much succulence as the birds will clean 

 up in twenty minutes'to half an hour should be supplied. 

 Fresh water should be given and the dry mash hopper 

 opened. 



"Two to three hours before the birds go to roost they 

 should be given a full feed of grain thrown in the litter. 



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