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SCIENCE OF HOME AND COMMUNITY 



Many poultry men are providing ventilation by leaving a 

 part of one side entirely open, protected in cold and stormy 

 weather by a cloth screen. 



Care of poultry. The essential points in the care of hens 

 may be briefly summarized under the following heads : clean 

 water at least once a day, grit, oyster shell, a dust box to 

 keep the fowls free from vermin, and the proper amounts 

 and kinds of food. The matter of food is one of the details 



Ventilator 



Summer 



Position of 

 Curtain 



Window 



FIG. 78. Cross section of henhouse shown in figure 77. 



on which experts do not agree. Indeed there is no one 

 method of feeding which is best, for there are many com- 

 binations of foods, all. of which are good. The essentials 

 in which these all agree are that in connection with the 

 grains there should be fed some form of meat food, such as 

 beef scraps and some green vegetable food, such as cabbage 

 or beets. The mixture of foods, known as mash, is given 

 dry by some and mixed with water by others. It has been 

 the custom to give the mash wet, but in recent years ex- 

 periments made with dry mash kept constantly before the 

 fowl in hoppers have given very satisfactory results, both as 

 regards egg production and the saving of labor in feeding. 



