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lowing mixture has been kept where the pullets had free 
access to it: 
Wheat Dtaniscnccncien ave gists cemiws aes 1 part, by weight 
Cornmeal vsssayscsaanesdiies ciostia reuaseaasinacearv 2 parts, by weight 
MIGGIIM eS ida teats cee. ato. < Kine “eecocd ae l part, by weight 
BGGl SCraD::.siacouics, dyabd: ane haa seairewileat 1 part, by weight 
The result has been satisfactory. This method saves 
labor in feeding and the chicks do not hang around the 
troughs and overeat, but help themselves to a little at a 
time, then going off to hunt insects, and coming back 
when hunger inclines them to do so. It has been found 
that chicks allowed to choose for themselves eat just 
about the same quantity of beef scrap that experience 
teaches is best for them. The method of feeding cock- 
erels is practically the same as that followed in feeding 
pullets. About 100 are kept in each flock, the portable 
brooding houses being large enough comfortably to house 
this number. Where cockerels are to be sold in the mar- 
ket for food a different method is used toward the last to 
finish them for sale. It has been found that a special 
method of fattening pays, as plump soft-fleshed cockerels 
bring a better price than those picked up from the range 
without having been specially fed. The grain mixture 
used is as follows: 
Cormmeal secccve.s eesti ade wees eames abouts teased 100 pounds 
Whéat mlGGlngs! cccccemeswessge sees es See 100 pounds 
Méatmeéal ssio0 sores ore get actaa 2 Mewes ceanaeed 40 pounds 
This was fed as a porridge thick enough to drop, but 
not to run from a spoon. 
No one may say positively what method is best in feed- 
ing laying hens. We know in a general way the kinds of 
feed that best promote egg production, but so far almost 
every investigator has a method of his own, which he 
