24 BRIGGS' SYSTEM OF 



presume you have a leghorn plant of three to five thou- 

 sand layers. We usually have much cold weather dur- 

 ing November in this part of the state. Of course, you 

 will have to vary this part of the system according to the 

 weather. Here you must use judgment. The first thing 

 in the morning, soon after daylight as convenient, start 

 out with a load of processed oats, and give each flock 

 of sixty layers about four quarts each. If the morning 

 is warm, open your windows. If cold, leave your win- 

 dows closed until your next trip, after breakfast, about 

 8 to 9 a. m. 



If morning is cold and freezing, you should take a 

 load of warm water and give each flock enough for the 

 day. The finest thing I know of to water a large plant 

 of this kind is a two-gallon butter crock. Get the low 

 kind, for they are easily kept clean and require but 

 little labor in filling Even if your hens have free ac- 

 cess to a stream of water they should be watered in 

 their houses during the winter if you want a large egg 

 yield. In the morning, when your hen comes off the 

 roost, she is apt to be dry, especially if she is laying, 

 and it is very essential at this time that your hen should 

 have warm water to drink, for cold water would chill 

 her and make her dull and all hump up and the result is 

 your eggs yield stops. 



About 2 p. m. give each flock all they will eat of 

 processed oats. Feed this very liberal, as you will find 

 they will always be hungry for this and you cannot 

 over feed them on it. About four quarts to a flock is 

 about right. This is one of the greatest egg producers 

 I know of, and there is nothing which makes eggs so 

 fertile. 



Your hen will eat these when she will look at nothing 

 else It can be produced for ten cents a bushel at the 

 highest price — usually for eight cents a bushel. I will 

 tell you in my next chapter how to process these oats. 



