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but milk. Lay? You never saw anything like it! I wish 

 I could remember how many they laid. Anyway they laid 

 enough to bring me the first prize of $100.00. Give me 

 cayenne pepper and skim milk, and I'll risk but what I can 

 make hens lay every time/' 



R. FOX'S HEN PERSUADER. 



"I can give you a receipt for an egg food and tonic that 

 will do the business," said Mr. Fox. "I sent off once for an 

 egg food that was highly advertised, and the first thing I 

 knew it had killed five hens. No, I guess I won't give you 

 the name. Maybe I was a little anxious to have 'em lay, and 

 fed too much of it. But this one I can vouch for. It is the 

 greatest hen persuader I know anything about. I fed it one 

 winter to seventy-two hens, and one day got sixty-eight eggs. 

 Five days in succession from the same flock I got sixty-four 

 eggs. Take ten pounds of bone meal, ten pounds beef scraps, 

 five pounds fenu-greek, two pounds sulphur, two pounds 

 charcoal, one-half pound cayenne pepper, one-half pound salt. 

 Mix and keep. Put a half pint in the mash every morning 

 for twenty hens. When you feed this egg food, feed no meat 

 meal or meat scraps, and do not salt the mash. You will get 

 the mixture right if you remember that the combined weight 

 of the ingredients is thirty pounds. It costs about a dollar 

 and a half to make it." 



TO START PULLETS TO LAYING IN THE FALL. 



When pullets are old enough to lay and do not lay they 

 need some slight shock or change to start them in. The ma- 

 jority of those who rear chickens give them free range, or as 

 near free range as possible, during the summer months. This 

 is correct. But after they get their growth their energies need 

 to be directed to egg production and not run off in useless 

 exercise. Accordingly as early as October 1st if not before 

 the pullets should be taken from the range and put into the 

 laying houses. Here their range should be restricted. More 

 meat meal or ground bone may be advantageously introduced 

 into their ration, and a stimulant may be given in the shape 

 of cayenne pepper or condition powder. This treatment soon 

 induces egg production, if they are of the "bred-to-lay" kind. 



