POULTRY RAISING 25 



This alone is worth hundreds of dollars to anyone who 

 keeps a large plant, as I will prove to you further on. 



For your last round, just before sundown, give each 

 flock two quarts of cracked corn in their litter, to give 

 them more exercise. Gather your eggs and close up 

 your windows. If weather is very warm leave one of 

 your windows open or partly open in scratching part. 

 You must use judgment in these things. A plant cared 

 for this way during the winter should give you fifty 

 to sixty per cent egg yield right through, providing 

 your pullets are laying age and your old hens have 

 passed through their molt. 



You will see that I feed four times as much processed 

 oats as I do any other kind of feed. Oats to a hen 

 are what oats are to a horse. It gives them vigor and 

 puts life in them, such as no other feed will do. 



If you follow these instructions to the letter, and 

 use judgment in keeping your houses from getting too 

 warm during the day, you will never fail to bring in a 

 load of eggs every day in the year. 



Always empty your water jars at night on this last 

 trip, so your hens will always be dry in the morning 

 when you come around with your load of warm water. 

 This is very important. 



About II a. m. give each flock of 60 layers about 

 one quart of green cut bone and at the same time, if 

 weather is very cold, gather your eggs, for if you are 

 saving them for hatching care must be taken they do 

 not get chilled. 



