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and Kaffir corn. Corn, oats and wheat are the 
grains to be depended upon month in and month 
out. The others are fed to give variety, but really 
are not necessary. Many warnings against the ex- 
cessive use of corn have been sounded, so many, 
indeed, that some breeders have come to be almost 
afraid of this grain. Yet corn is the best poultry 
food there is and the danger that it will make the 
fowls too fat to lay is a bugaboo to which little at- 
tention need be paid, so long as pullets and one- 
year-old hens are kept — and nothing older ought to 
be found in the poultry yard. A fat hen will lay 
better than a thin one, anyway, and pullets with 
ordinary freedom and an average amount of mixed 
feed will seldom become unduly afflicted with avoir- 
dupois. 
Corn, then, may well constitute one-third of the 
ration the year around, and in Winter no harm will 
be done if half the scratch ration is corn. Of course 
this grain is heating, and in extremely warm weather 
the quantity may be reduced to a very small amount 
for the time being. 
Many amateurs get satisfactory results feeding 
equal parts of cracked corn, oats and wheat. 
Cracked corn is better than whole corn simply be- 
