CHAPTER X 



Patent Processed Feeds and Hozv to Produce Them 



IMPORTANT NOTICE 



The following process of preparing my improved feed 



is fully protected by United States patent pending, and 



included with the sale of this book is a license authorizing 



• the purchaser named to make and use my Processed Feed 



for his own use only. 



I will now tell you of one of the most wonderful 

 feeds known at the present time. Positively one of 

 the greatest egg producers ever discovered and some- 

 thing that will make eggs hatch any time of the year. 

 Oats to a hen is what oats is to a horse. What would 

 a horse be worth without oats? But very little! The 

 main objection to oats for fowls is their very tough 

 hull, which is very hard to digest, and for this reason 

 alone many people will not feed them to their hens 

 I have experimented very extensively with oats and 

 have fed them for weeks boiled, with no results in 

 eggs. They make a very good fattening feed when 

 boiled, but of no value for eggs — simply put the hens 

 out of laying condition. But when processed, hens eat 

 them in preference to anything else. In fact, they will 

 eat them when they will touch nothing else, while on 

 the other hand, they are the last things eaten by the 

 hens in their natural dry state. I will now tell you how 

 to process them. 



Take a pail of good, ordinary oats, same as you 

 feed your horses, cover them with water and let them 

 soak five hours in summer and ten hours in winter, then 

 turn them in a larger pail, one that will hold double the 

 amount, first bore a one-half inch hole in your pail be- 

 fore turning them in, so it will not hold water; leave 

 in this pail until they sprout thoroughly and begin to 



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