POULTRY MANAGEMENT. 9 



fed four times a day in these troughs until they outgrow them, as 

 follows: Bread and egg or scrap early in the morning; at half 

 past nine o'clock dry grain, either pin head oats, crushed wheat, 

 millett seed or cracked corn. At one o'clock dry grain again, 

 and the last feed of the day is of the bread with egg or scrap. 



Between the four feeds in the pans or troughs, millett seed, 

 pin head oats and fine cracked corn, and later whole wheat, are 

 scattered in the chaff on the floor for the chicks to scratch for. 

 This makes them exercise, and care is taken that they do not find 

 the food too easily. 



One condition is made imperative in our feeding. The food 

 is never to remain in the troughs more than 5 minutes before 

 the troughs are cleaned or removed. This insures sharp appe- 

 tites at meal time, and guards against inactivity which comes 

 from over feeding. 



Charcoal, granulated bone, oyster shell and sharp grit are 

 always kept by them, as well as clean water. Mangolds are 

 cut into slices, which they soon learn to peck. When the grass 

 begins to grow they are able to get green food from the yards. 

 If the small yards are worn out before they are moved to the 

 range, green cut clover or rape is fed to them. 



After the chickens are moved to the range they are fed in the 

 same manner, except that the morning and evening feed is made 

 of corn meal, middlings and wheat bran, to which one tenth as 

 much beef scrap is added. The other two feeds are of wheat 

 and cracked corn. One year we fed double the amount of scrap 

 all through the growing season and had the April and May pul 1 

 .lets well developed and laying through September and October. 

 To our sorrow they nearly all moulted in December, and that 

 month and January were nearly bare of eggs. 



FEEDING THE COCKERELS FOR MARKET. 



When the chickens are moved to the field the sexes are sep- 

 arated. The pullets are cared for as explained above. The 

 cockerels are confined in yards, in lots of about 100, and fed 

 twice daily on porridge made of 4 parts corn meal, 2 parts mid- 

 dlings or flour, and one part fine beef scrap. The mixed meals 

 are wet with skim milk or water — milk is preferred — until the 

 mixture will just run, but not drop, from the end of a wooden 



