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(11). Ration for Laying Breeding Stock.—(Burrinton).— Morning,— mash, 
corn meal and middlings, equal parts, a little beef scrap and (in winter) boiled potatoes, 
a little salt, egg food; mixed with hot water and fed as soon as the fowls can see, except 
in the long summer days. Mash fed light, and a little dry grain, mixed, given after it. 
Afternoon feed,— dry grain, oats, corn and wheat, equal parts. 
(12). Ration for Thirteen Plymouth Rocks (male and twelve females) in Con- 
finement.—(Lasu).—Morning and noon,—for pullets 1 pt. wheat, in litter; for hens 
three-quarters pt. Evening,— mash, 4 parts beans, 2 parts shorts, 3 parts ground oats, 
1 part ground corn, one-third the whole cut clover; every third day one-quarter the 
whole green bone; z tablespoons pulverized charcoal to bucket of feed every third day; 
wet with hot water, and when cool feed until the crops are about two-thirds full. 
(13). Ration for Laying Stock.— A Three-Day Rotation.—(HunTER).— Morn- 
ing,— mash, cooked vegetables mashed fine, or cut clover cooked by being brought toa 
boiling heat in water; to this add an equal amount of boiling water; to each bucket of 
feed use a tablespoon salt, and two days a heaping teaspoon condition powder, the third 
day of powdered charcoal. Make mash very stiff with mixed meal,— by measure, 1 part 
each corn meal, fine middlings, bran, ground oats, and animal meal,—the meal omitted 
or reduced in quantity when cut bone is fed. Mash omitted two days in each week. 
Noon,— light feed of grain. Evening,—full feed of grain. Grain fed in variety in 
rotation, thus : — 
Monday — oats (or barley), wheat, whole corn. 
Tuesday — mash, barley (or buckwheat), wheat. 
Wednesday — mash, cut bone, wheat. 
Cabbage, or split roots of beets, turnips, etc., fed often. 
(14). General Ration for Adult Fowls and for Chicks when given Three 
Meals a Day.— Morning,— mash; by measure, 2 parts, finely cut alfalfa, 2 parts heavy” 
bran (bran and middlings), 1 part corn meal; cook alfalfa in as much water as will make 
the quantity of mash needed of proper consistency (about the proportion of 5 gals. water 
to each peck of the hay); when boiling stir in the corn meal, or chop, making a thick 
mush; add the bran, making a very stiff, almost crumbly dough. Feed either hot or 
cold, all they will eat clean in ten to fifteen minutes. If other green food is abundant 
the hay may be omitted, (in which case not so much mash should be fed, and the green 
food given an hour or two after the mash). With the proportion of hay specified in the 
mash fowls zeed no other green food. Noon,—a light feed of oats or millet, dry or 
steamed; or of wheat — about one-half pint to every ten hens. Noon feed omitted on 
Sundays. Evening,—at 4 or 5 o’clock wheat, about 1 pint to every ten hens, in litter; 
at dusk whole corn to fowls that are waiting for it. Two or three times a week cut bone 
at mid-afternoon, and on these days the evening feed slightly reduced. 
(15). Ration for Small Flock, in Confinement, with Exercise.— Morning,— 
mashes; alternating, one day table scraps and slops mixed cold with corn meal, shorts 
and bran equal parts; next day, 2 parts corn meal, 1 part fine shorts, 3 parts bran, a little 
meat meal. Make a thin mush of the corn meal, and pour while boiling over the other 
ingredients previously mixed dry in a pail; stir thoroughly to a stiff, almost crumbly 
dough; feed when cool. (A mash made in this way needs time to cook by its own heat). 
At noon vegetables or steamed clover occasionally. Afternoon feed, 3 o’clock,— cracked 
corn in heavy litter, 1 qt. to twelve hens two days; the third day same amount wheat. 
On cold evenings give at dusk all the whole corn that will be eaten greedily. 
(16). Forcing Ration for Broilers.—(Dusron).— First. feed,— rolled oats, warm 
skim milk. First week,— rolled oats, millet seed, cracked corn. Second week,— use a 
little of a mash made of one-third corn meal to two-thirds wheat bran, seasoned with 
