CHAPTER XJV 

 Feeding a Yarded Plant for the Greatest Possible Profit 



I will now tell you how to feed a yarded plant for the 

 greatest possible profit and still have healthy birds and 

 produce eggs that will run fully 90 per cent fertile in 

 January. This method will produce more winter eggs 

 than any method I knQw of at the present time. Keep 

 a hopper of wheat screenings, one of beef scraps, always 

 before them. Also your grit, oyster shells and charcoal — 

 never let them get out of any one of these ingredients. 

 As soon as it is light, give each flock a few handfuls of 

 barley or buckwheat in the litter to keep them busy, say 

 a pint to twenty hens. 



About 9 a. m. give all the processed oats they will 

 take. 



About II a. m. give a light feeding of green cut bone, 

 just what they will eat up nicely, not over one-quarter to 

 one-third ounce to a hen. 



About 2 p. m. feed all the processed oats they will eat. 



Just before going to roost give a light feeding of 

 cracked corn, thrown in their litter — they will not take 

 much as a rule. 



In the morning give your hens good, clean, warm wa- 

 ter. This is very important, for the more your hens drink 

 the more eggs they will lay. 



Always dump all your drinking fountains at night so 

 your hens will be sure to be good and dr}- in the morn- 

 ing, and start ofif with warm water. 



If you keep )our windows well opened during the day 

 so your hens do not get too warm, you will have no 

 trouble in getting an abundance of eggs all winter long. 

 For if you knock your hens out by over-heating them or 

 leaving your windows open just one night, carelessly, it 

 will take three weeks to get them back on eggs again. 

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