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substituted a grain ration composed of sixty parts of 

 cracked corn to forty parts of whole oats; this is 

 scattered among the litter so the fowls must scratch 

 hard for it. This exercise keeps the hens in good con- 

 dition and they are doing excellent laying. During the 

 winter we feed all the beets, turnips, cabbage, clover 

 hay and alfalfa (cut into half-inch lengths and scalded 

 over night), and sprouted oats, that the fowls will eat. 

 This gives bulk to their food and they do much better 

 work, Besides, roots and hay cost considerably less 

 than grain. The turnips and beets are cut in half and 

 nailed to the inside walls of the hen coop, and the cab- 

 bages are suspended from the ceiling by a rope. The 

 steeped clover ha}^ or alfalfa is mixed with the morning 



BRINGING IN THE EGGS ON A GREAT 

 EGG FARM. 



mash. Surely, the high cost of feeds is teaching poultry 

 keepers lessons of economy that will do us a world of 

 good. 



