68 BRIGGS' SYSTEM OF 



At 9 a. m. give all the processed oats they will take. 



At I p. m. a light feeding of green cut bone, a pint to 

 a quart for sixty layers. 



At 3 p. m. all the processed oats they will take. 



At 4 p. m., or later, according to the time of the year, 

 another feeding of oats. This should be fed to all large 

 breeds in place of cracked corn. 



Always use clipped oats, and feed in the litter, and you 

 will not only get an abundance of eggs, but eggs that 

 will hatch strong, healthy chicks that will live. Such 

 eggs will run from 8o to 90 per cent, fertile right in the 

 winter months. 



I am not guessing at this, for I am doing it right in 

 February. 



Do not be afraid of the processed oats, but give all 

 they will possibly take for they are very light and it is 

 impossible to over-feed on them. There is nothing I have 

 ever tried that will make hens lay equal to them, and 

 nothing so cheap. It costs only about half to feed a plant 

 this way. 



You can always sell any amount of eggs for hatching 

 at $5 per one hundred. 



I am positive you could sell all a three thousand laying 

 plant could produce for hatching by a liberal amount of 

 advertising on the same lines I told you how to advertise 

 Leghorn eggs. 



You could sell a large quantity of breeders for good 

 prices, if you will start with farily good stock and ex- 

 hibit at the small shows on the start. 



One thing you have to contend with on a Wvandotte 

 plant, you do not on a Leghorn plant, and that is setters 

 This means quite some work, but you will not have near 

 the amount of setters on a plant fed this way. 



To properly break up a setter, they should not be al- 

 lowed to remain, on the nest the first night, and as a rule 

 three days will break up any setter. Or, if you want to 



