366 ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE 



An abundant supply of fresh water is essential for hens, 

 as it is for all other farm animals. 



A combination that has proved satisfactory at the 

 Maine Experiment Station for laying hens, is: Four quarts 

 of corn, two quarts of wheat, two quarts of oats for the 

 whole grain per day for 100 Plymouth Rock hens. The dry 

 mash was made of a mixture of 200 pounds of wheat bran 

 and 100 pounds each of corn meal, wheat middlings, gluten 

 meal, linseed meal, and meat scrap. This is fed in the hopper 

 as mentioned above. 



The following mixtures are used at the New York 

 State College of Agriculture at Cornell University: 



Young chickens from three weeks old to maturity. 

 Grain mixture: 200 pounds of finely cracked corn, 300 

 pounds of cracked wheat. Ground feed: 400 pounds corn 

 meal, 400 pounds wheat bran, 400 pounds wheat middlings, 

 400 pounds meat scrap, 100 pounds oil meal, 25 pounds 

 bone flour. 



Pullets and laying hens. Grain ration: 200 pounds 

 cracked corn, 200 pounds wheat, 100 pounds oats (for 

 pullets use 300 pounds of wheat). Ground feed: 600 pounds 

 corn meal, 600 pounds wheat middlings, 300 pounds 

 wheat bran, 500 pounds meat scrap, 100 pounds oil meal, 

 100 pounds alfalfa meal. 



Fattening ration: All ground feed, 100 pounds corn 

 meal, 100 pounds wheat middlings, 100 pounds oat flour, 

 30 pounds meat scrap. 



315. Poultry Houses. The details of construction are 

 given in some of the references at the end of this chapter. 

 There are a few general principles that apply in all regions. 



Sunlight should reach every part of the house, if pos- 



