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WATER BARREL FOR LARGE FLOCK. 



Where several hundred growing chicks are kept on free range 

 in one flock, it is quite a task to keep them supplied with fresh 



water, and very often during 

 the hot summer days their 

 supply becomes exhausted and 

 they suffer for w r ant of water. 

 If you have several hundred in 

 one flock, it is advisable to get 

 a large keg or small water 

 barrel and put a faucet in the 

 lower part of the barrel and 

 turn the faucet just enough so 

 that a little water will con- 

 tinue to run or drip continu- 

 ously. The barrel can be filled 

 once a day, and you need not 

 feel any uneasiness about your 

 birds having sufficient supply 



A labor-saving watering device. Q f f res h water. Place the 



barrel in the shade of a tree where it will be convenient to the 

 flock. 



FOODS AND METHODS OF FEEDING MATURE STOCK. 



We receive dozens and dozens of letters from farmers and poultry- 

 men asking why they do not get better results. We find that some 

 do not feed enough, some feed too much, and some do not feed the 

 proper food. Poultry must have food of some sort if you expect eggs, 

 but farmers have written and stated that they had three hundred 

 hens and were not feeding anything whatever and no food was in 

 reach of their flock except the grass, bugs and worms they could pick 

 up. Another man wrote that he had less than one hundred hens and 

 he took a bushel basket of corn on the cob and scattered it out for 

 his poultry .each day just as he would to his fattening hogs. Neither 

 were getting eggs. It is best not to feed corn alone, but if the fowls 

 have plenty of grass and free range, if not given in too great quanti- 

 ties, corn can be used as an exclusive grain ration with reasonably 

 satisfactory results. The egg yield can be increased considerably in 

 winter by feeding a liberal amount of corn, but an exclusive diet of 

 corn is dangerous. 



Milk fed to poultry in all forms produces good results. The 

 acid in sour milk will destroy much of the bacteria in the intestinal 

 tract. It pays twice the profit when fed to your poultry that it does 

 when fed to pigs. 



Don't feed musty, moldy grain. It will cause bowel trouble, the 

 fowls w r ill break down in the back and die. 



The laying hen takes about twice as much feed as she does when 

 not laying. It takes just so much feed to sustain her body and the 

 surplus she manufactures into eggs. 



