FEEDING PULLETS 81 
product, as far as the author’s experience has 
proved, is a satisfactory substitute. 
The best way to feed it is just as it comes 
from the barrel. If several narrow wood 
strips, three or four inches wide, are nailed 
between the studs along the walls in the 
poultry house, about a foot from the floor, 
the semi-solid buttermilk can be spread 
thinly upon these strips. This gives all the 
hens an opportunity to get their share. At 
the same time, it is kept up, away from the 
floor, so that no dirt or litter can be scratched 
into it, and the fowls themselves cannot get 
up onto the strips to foul them. 
Amount to Feed. The quantity to be 
fed to pullets is as follows: Two and one-half 
pounds per hundred hens, per day, during 
September, October, and November; three 
pounds during December and January; four 
or five pounds per hundred hens, per day, 
during the remainder of the year. 
If semi-solid buttermilk in these quantities 
is furnished to the laying hens, the quantity 
of beef scraps in the mash ration should be 
changed from one hundred pounds to fifty 
pounds. If liquid milk is given instead of the 
