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chicks. If you notice that your birds are becoming fat and lazy, 

 drop an occasional soft-shelled egg, and that their combs instead 

 of being a healthy red are a dull purple, reduce the ration at once 

 and set the birds to work otherwise you will have dead hens on 

 your hands. About the time of feeding the mash : it don't make 

 a cent's worth of difference whether you feed morning, noon or 

 night, so long as you feed enough and feed the right things. 



THE GOLDEN RULE FOR FEEDING. 



Give the hen a sufficient variety and quantity to meet all the 

 needs of her system and leave a margin for egg production. A 

 warm mash in the morning, all she will eat with good relish in 15 

 minutes to half an hour. Enough grain during the day so that 

 she will go to roost with a crop moderately full, neither dis- 

 tended on the one hand nor nearly empty on the other. Green] 

 food, either in mash or separately. More heating food in winter 

 and more of it than in summer. In general it may be said, that 

 one ounce of food a day for each pound she weighs is about right 

 for the average hen. 



HOW SOME SUCCESSFUL MEN FEED. 



MR. B. F. DUNLAP, West Salisbury, N. H. One of the most 

 remarkable poultrymen that I know anything about is Mr. B. F. 

 Dunlap of West Salisbury, N. H., who keeps from 450 to 500 

 head of laying stock (White Wyandottes and Rhode Island 

 Reds) and clears up a profit of $1,000 yearly. Mr. Dunlap is 

 postmaster and proprietor of a country store, and all the time he 

 can devote to his hens is what he can snatch from his business. 

 Mr. Dunlap lives five miles from the nearest railroad, and makes 

 his profits from eggs, which he markets in Boston. 



"Every day something different," is the principle he goes on, 

 as expressed in his own words. He has four combinations, which 

 he names from the leading article in each : Boiled potatoes, \vaste 

 bread, clover hay, whole oats. The four combinations are as fol- 

 lows, enough kettlesful being mixed up to feed the whole flock : 



1. Boiled potatoes, soaked over night, 8 quarts; gluten, 

 soaked over night, 3 quarts. In the morning add mixed feed, 2 

 quarts ; corn and oats, ground and mixed together, 2 quarts. 



2. Waste bread, soaked over night, 8 quarts; beef scraps, 2 

 quarts; corn and oats, 2 quarts. 



