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(11). Ration for Laying Breeding Stock. (BUFFINTON). Morning, mash, 

 corn meal and middlings, equal parts, a little beef scrap and (in winter) boiled potatoes, 

 a little salt, egg food ; mixed with hot water and fed as soon as the fowls can see, except 

 in the long summer days. Mash fed light, and a little dry grain, mixed, given after it. 

 Afternoon feed, dry grain, oats, corn and wheat, equal parts. 



(12). Ration for Thirteen Plymouth Rocks (male and twelve females) in Con- 

 finement. (LASH). Morning and noon, for pullets i pt. wheat, in litter; for hens 

 three-quarters pt. Evening, mash, 4 parts beans, 2 parts shorts, 3 parts ground oats, 

 i part ground corn, one-third the whole cut clover; every third day one-quarter the 

 whole green bone ; 2 tablespoons pulverized charcoal to bucket of feed every third day ; 

 wet with hot water, and when cool feed until the crops are about two-thirds full. 



(13). Ration for Laying Stock A Three-Day Rotation. (HUNTER). Morn- 

 ing, mash, cooked vegetables mashed fine, or cut clover cooked by being brought to a 

 boiling heat in water; to this add an equal amount of boiling water; to each bucket of 

 feed use a tablespoon salt, and two days a heaping teaspoon condition powder, the third 

 day of powdered charcoal. Make mash very stiff with mixed meal, by measure, i part 

 each corn meal, fine middlings, bran, ground oats, and animal meal, the meal omitted 

 or reduced in quantity when cut bone is fed. Mash omitted two days in each week. 

 Noon, light feed of grain. Evening, full feed of grain. Grain fed in variety in 

 rotation, thus : 



Monday oats (or barley), wheat, whole corn. 



Tuesday mash, barley (or buckwheat), wheat. 



Wednesday mash, cut bone, wheat. 



Cabbage, or split roots of beets, turnips, etc., fed often. 



(14). General Ration for Adult Fowls and for Chicks when given Three 

 Meals a Day. Morning, mash; by measure, 2 parts finely cut alfalfa, 2 parts heavy 

 bran (bran and middlings), i part corn meal; cook alfalfa in as much water as will make 

 the quantity of mash needed of proper consistency (about the proportion of 5 gals, water 

 to each peck of the hay) ; when boiling stir in the corn meal, or chop, making a thick 

 mush; add the bran, making a very stiff, almost crumbly dough. Feed either hot or 

 cold, all they will eat clean in ten to fifteen minutes. If other green food is abundant 

 the hay may be omitted, (in which case not so much mash should be fed, and the green 

 food given an hour or two after the mash). With the proportion of hay specified in the 

 mash fowls need no other green food. Noon, a light feed of oats or millet, dry or 

 steamed; or of wheat about one-half pint to every ten hens. Noon feed omitted on 

 Sundays. Evening, at 4 or 5 o'clock wheat, about i pint to every ten hens, in litter; 

 at dusk whole corn to fowls that are waiting for it. Two or three times a week cut bone 

 nt mid-afternoon, and on these days the evening feed slightly reduced. 



(15). Ration for Small Flock, in Confinement, with Exercise. Morning, 

 mashes ; alternating, one day table scraps and slops mixed cold with corn meal, shorts 

 and bran equal parts ; next day, 2 parts corn meal, i part fine shorts, 3 parts bran, a little 

 meat meal. Make a thin mush of the corn meal, and pour while boiling over the other 

 ingredients previously mixed dry in a pail ; stir thoroughly to a stiff, almost crumbly 

 dough ; feed when cool. (A mash made in this way needs time to cook by its own heat). 

 At noon vegetables or steamed clover occasionally. Afternoon feed, 3 o'clock, cracked 

 corn in heavy litter, i qt. to twelve hens two days ; the third day same amount wneat. 

 On cold evenings give at dusk all the whole corn that will be eaten greedily. 



(16). Forcing Ration for Broilers. (DUSTON). First feed, rolled oats, warm 

 skim milk. First week, rolled oats, millet seed, cracked corn. Second week, use a 

 little of a mash made of one-third corn meal to two-thirds wheat bran, seasoned with 



