CHAPTER VIII 

 Care of Layers 



First, I will tell you how to care for three thousand 

 layers with but little labor, and you should clear $3,000 

 a year from them. 



If you have built your plant on a stream of water you 

 will have no watering to do. 



Keep your feed boxes filled at all times. 



Never let them get empty. 



Your main feed is best quality wheat screenings. 



Your large hopper will take a one-hundred-pound 

 bag, which should last a full week, often two weeks. 



You should make a round every week and fill all your 

 hoppers — one with wheat screenings, one with beef 

 scraps, and your three-department hopper with grit, 

 oyster shells and charcoal." 



If your plant is built on a stream and inclosed with 

 a good wire-netting fence, all the work you have to do 

 during the week is to gather your eggs every night and 

 give each flock of fowls two quarts of cracked corn. 



Remember, your fowls have wheat feed before them 

 all the time, so they can safely have a light feed of 

 another kind of grain every night. 



A horse and wagon should be used for this work at 

 all times. A good gentle horse that can be left standing 

 and is afraid of nothing is what you want. 



From November until April you will have to make 

 two trips a day to your houses. As coll weather comes 

 on your windows will have to be closed nights and 

 should be opened again in the morning when the sun 

 shines and warms things up. 



On this same trip you should give your hens all the 

 processed oats they will eat — about four quarts. 



