46 POULTRY 
While they will lay, and while some will lay 
large numbers of eggs, yet the tendency of 
these pullets is always to lay a comparatively 
small egg. Of course, the tendency is that 
the pullets themselves will never be as large 
as they might have been. 
Milk. If milk in some form is available 
after the chickens are eight or ten weeks old, 
the meat-scrap content of the mash should 
be cut in two. In other words, fifty pounds 
will replace the one hundred pounds given in 
the original formula. 
How to Feed. The scratch feed should 
be fed on the ground and scattered over as 
great an area as possible. It should be fed 
at some distance away from the house. 
Scratch feed should never be fed so liberally 
as to lie on the ground from one feeding time 
to the next. The chickens should clean up 
each feeding in an hour or less. 
The dry-mash hoppers should be con- 
structed so that the mash will not get damp. 
The roof of the hopper should extend out over 
the hopper itself at least a foot on each side 
so that the chickens may stand under there 
and eat, even if it is raining hard outside. 
