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noon until closing up time. This is kept up until birds reach winter 

 quarters. 



The mash is made up of the following ingredients : 



Seven pounds corn meal. 



Five pounds wheat middlings. 



Four pounds wheat bran. 



Two pounds cut alfalfa. 



Eight per cent beef scrap or 1.44 pounds. 



Bran in troughs is also kept before them, while in a separate box 

 a mixture of equal parts, by measure, of charcoal, fine cracked bone 

 and grit, according to the size needed. 



After the culling and separating takes place and the birds are 

 put into their pens the ration now changes somewhat, which is as 

 follows (for laying hens. Fed dry) : 



Ten pounds cracked corn. 



Ten pounds whole wheat. 



Five pounds oats. 



Seven pounds corn meal. 



Five pounds wheat middlings. 



Four pounds wheat bran. 



Two pounds cut alfalfa. 



One pound 0. P. meal. 



Fifteen per cent or 2.85 pounds beef scrap. 



.40 pound charcoal. 



Along with the above, which is kept in supply cans, is fed two to 

 three pounds of green food (beets or cabbage). If sprouted oats is 

 used one square foot to thirty hens per day; also, one-half ounce per 

 bird green cut bone per day. 



The breeders, after the end of the breeding season is over, are 

 turned out on free range to recuperate. They being fed equal parts, 

 by measure, of coarse cracked corn, whole wheat and oats, and the 

 mash is six pounds corn meal, three pounds bran, six pounds wheat 

 middlings, five pounds beef scrap, two pounds cut alfalfa, one pound 

 0. P. meal, besides the other extras. 



During the breeding season the whole grain is equal parts, by 

 weight, of cracked corn and whole wheat. The mash remains the 

 same, never being fed wet, with the addition of one-half ounce of 

 green cut bone per bird per day along with two to three pounds of 

 green food as (beets or cabbage). If sprouted oats, one-third square 

 foot for each lot of thirty hens. The other care is about the same as 

 layers, precaution being taken to have everything clean at all times. 



When fed in houses, in the morning all the straw is piled to- 

 wards the front of the house and a small quantity of the whole grain 

 thrown on this. 



At noon the hoppers are opened and green feed fed, and at night 

 a space is cleared away and the whole grain fed, all that they will 

 eat up clean. 



{Can make larger 

 quantities in 

 same proportion. 



