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cessed oats they will take. At i p. m., when you give 

 your flocks more water, or put in warm water with what 

 they have, give on this trip a light feeding of green cut 

 bone — a quart to a flock of sixty, if they will take that 

 much, if not, cut them down to a pint. 



About 3 p. m. give another feeding of processed oats, 

 all they will eat. Remember, these only cost 8 or 10 cents 

 a bushel. 



Before dark give not over i to i^ quarts of cracked 

 corn to a flock, and gather your eggs. If it is verv cold 

 weather, you will also have to gather your eggs on your 

 I o'clock trip. 



These birds must have always before them grit, oyster 

 shells, and charcoal Also a hopper of beef scraps and 

 one of wheat screenings or wheat. 



Just a word about mating up your breeders to produce 

 chickens, which should practically every one live. 



To do this, take all your yearling hens and mate them 

 with cockerels, not less than ten months old. Put these 

 birds on my free-range system, and feed as I have here 

 directed, you can then raise practically every chick you 

 hatch. 



Pullets also hatched in February and March, mated to 

 good, vigorous "yearling cocks, will also produce chick- 

 ens that are very hardy when a year old, and you should 

 have no trouble in raising 90 to 95 per cent, of these 

 chicks. 



Under no circumstances use anything but a single- 

 combed White Leghorn for the greatest profit, because 

 they lay the largest egg of the Leghorn family, and are 

 by far the most popular of the Leghorn family. 



To dispose of your breeders to the best advantage dur- 

 ing July, August, and September, you should make a 

 great clearance sale at $1 each. You will have no trou- 

 ble to dispose of all your surplus stock at this price, and 

 you will find this far preferable to putting them on the 

 market. 



