FEEDING FOR EGGS. 279 
The dust bath should be provided at all seasons of the 
year. In winter a generous box of dry dust by a sunny 
window will be sufficient for forty or a eng if its 
supply of dust is renewed once or 
twice. Add half a pound each of 
lime and sulphur to each bushel of 
dust used’; these greatly assist in kill- 
ing lice. Fine sifted coal ashes are 
excellent. If wood ashes are used, 
they should make up but one-fourth 
of the dust, as their potash is too § 
strong when used alone. In summer. 
wallowing in the dry earth is best. 
SPRING AND SUMMER. 
At these seasons, hens should be 
fed twice aday. Give a warm mash 
in the morning, composed of all the 
odds and ends from the table, any- 
thing but bones, cut and jammed up 
and mixed with Indian meal and FIG. 109. srvene case 
shorts or fine feed, about half and (rumen precuanen ov 
half; then scald and give as warm as PassacEs (See P. 318). 
they will eat it. About nine o’clock give them a pan of 
milk which has been soured and thickened, and a pail of 
apples partly decayed, which they will devour voraciously. 
About four or a little after give them a generous feed of 
Indian corn and wheat, half and half. Keep ground 
oyster shells by them, and mix scraps or meat cut up, 
or grease, with their breakfast, every two or three days. 
If the chicks are all right, the hens will lay all winter 
with this slight care. 
USEFUL HINTS. 
To use pans for feeding, take a common milk pan and 
two wires—one two feet long and the other one foot 
long. Bend the long one in the middle into a loop, 
