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3. Clover hay, soaked over night. In the morning add 2 

 quarts flour middlings, 2 quarts boiled beef and bone, 2 quarts 

 corn and oats. 



4. Whole oats, soaked over night, 8 quarts; gluten, soaked 

 over night, 4 quarts. In the morning add 2 quarts shorts, I quart 

 beef and bone, 2 quarts corn and oats. 



The mash is fed in the morning, and the hens are given all 

 they will eat up clean in ten minutes. The second and last meal 

 comes at noon, and is grain of some kind. 



The day Mr. Dunlap feeds boiled potatoes the hens have wheat. 

 The day he feeds waste bread they have wheat or cracked corn. 

 The day he feeds clover hay they have cracked corn. And the 

 day he feeds oats and gluten they have cracked corn or buckwheat. 

 The grain is thrown into the sand and litter in each pen, and the 

 hens have to scratch for it. Mr. Dunlap does not give the hens 

 all the grain they can eat, but as much as they can digest and 

 come to breakfast the next morning with an empty crop and a 

 good appetite. Whole turnips are kept in the pens all the time, 

 so that the hens can get a taste of green food when they want it. 



MR. G. M. GOWELL of the Maine Experiment Station is doing 

 some excellent work with hens. Mr. Gowell is the originator of 

 the trap nest described in this book, and keeps individual records. 

 He breeds White Wyandottes and Barred Plymouth Rocks, and 

 long ago found the 200 egg hen. He feeds as follows : 



Twenty pullets and two cockerels are kept in each lot. 



Each pen of 22 receives one pint of wheat, in the deep litter 

 early in the morning. At 9.30 A.M. one-half pint of oats is fed 

 to them in the same way. At I P.M. one-half pint of cracked corn 

 is given in the litter as before. At 3 P.M. in winter and 4 P.M. in 

 the summer they are given all the mash they will eat up clean, 

 in half an hour. 



The mash is made of the following mixture of meals : 

 200 pounds wheat bran ; 100 pounds corn meal ; 100 pounds wheat 

 middlings ; 100 pounds linseed meal ; 100 pounds meat meal or fine 

 meat scraps. Part of the year the linseed meal is omitted, and the 

 amount of meat meal doubled. The mash contains one-fourth 

 of its bulk of clover leaves and heads, secured from the feeding 

 floor in the cattle barn. The clover is thoroughly soaked with hot 

 water. The mash is made quite dry. Cracked bone, oyster shells, 

 clean grit and water are at all times before them. Two large 



