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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." 



MR. 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 too 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 72 hens, and one day got 

 68 eggs. Five days in succession from the same flock I got 64 

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

 pounds fenugreek, 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 20 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 30 

 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 majority 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. Accord- 

 ingly 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. 



