108 POULTRY 
and, if possible, should be allowed to dry in 
the sun. 
Teaching Pullets to Seek Grain. After 
the house and all of its equipment have be- 
come dry the litter for the new pullets may 
be placed in the house. For this a thin layer 
of shavings is recommended, perhaps a bale 
or a bale and a half to each pen twenty-two 
feet square. If this litter is put in thinly the 
new pullets, which have not been accustomed 
to scratching while on the range, will see the 
scratch feed among the litter and will readily 
learn to scratch. The change from the out- 
door system of feeding to the indoor system 
will be made gradually. If a deep litter is 
used the pullets, not being accustomed to 
scratching, will not know enough to find the 
grain. In this case, at the end of a week or 
ten days considerable grain will be accumu- 
lated in the litter and, unless care is taken, 
the pullets may lose their appetite for scratch 
grain. If this happens they will also lose 
their appetite for mash, and the first thing 
the poultryman knows his production will 
start downward and the birds will begin to 
lose weight. 
