160 POULTRY BREEDING 
and the avoidance of the mobbing that always occurs at 
trough-feeding when that is made the meal of the day, 
whether it be at morning or evening. There are no tail- 
ings to be gathered up or wasted, as is common when a 
full meal of mash is given at night. The labor is very 
much less, enabling one person to care for more birds 
than when a regular evening meal is given. 
For green feed in winter and spring mangels are used. 
They are liked by the birds and when properly harvested 
and cared for will remain crisp and fresh until spring. 
They are fed whole by impaling them on projecting nails 
about 18” above the floor. Care must be taken not to 
feed them too freely, as they are laxative when too freely 
used. In Denmark great attention is paid to egg produc- 
tion, the Danish government interesting itself in the im- 
provement of poultry. Ina report to the National Poul- 
try Organization Society (England), Edward Brown, 
F L. S., gives the following method of feeding White 
Leghorns on a Danish farm where the hens averaged 
about 160 eggs each in a year, a record that should be 
perfectly satisfactory to any one. In the morning a mash 
is fed. The following is the composition of-the mash: 
Growind! OAtS «xe ceouisware auseimnaniers ee aeamnes 4 parts, by weight 
BIAit sarcnsnanniqusiste. ohaergete ns woman © 4 parts. by weight 
- Comnmileal is iz y. seas rcauermessa aie & polis ata a 2 parts by weight 
Bonemeal and meat, each.................05 \w% part, by weight 
This is mixed with skimmilk obtained from a nearby 
creamery. During the day chopped turnips and alfalfa 
is fed, as much as the hens will eat. In the evening a 
mixture of grain of the following composition is fed: 
CORN iconse qaeaniaaar tienen danni eee a: 2 parts, by weight 
WHEE seston picsns aaa eraaant eh ae oAeE CAS l part, by weight 
OLS 6 sisi, orice conta eeeany adem teem Bead 2 parts, by weight 
Barley ssvasanna nenvactns, ox somes oan an vaeduwe 2 parts, by weight 
