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night. The dry mash is kept before the hens in 

 hoppers, so that they may help themselves at any 

 time. At noon cut alfalfa or some other green feed 

 is given. 



Some feeders give no grain at all in the morning, 

 but a very heavy feed at night, which will keep the 

 fowls busy scratching the next day. 



The dry mash is more generally used than the wet 

 mash because it is more convenient, but many feeders 

 still use the wet mash occasionally. Some keep the 

 dry mash before the fowls in hoppers and give a wet 

 mash in addition either in the morning or at noon. 

 When a wet mash is used care should be taken to 

 give no more than the fowls will eat up clean in a 

 few minutes. Two advantages of the wet mash are 

 (1) that table scraps, refuse vegetables and stale 

 bread may be used in it more readily than in any 

 other way, (2) that it is more appetizing and tempts 

 the fowls to eat more than they would of the dry 

 mash alone. 



Tom Barron, the English breeder of White Leg- 

 horns, whose hens have distanced all competitors at 

 the egg-laying contests at Storrs, Connecticut, and 

 Mountain Grove, Missouri, uses a combination of the 

 wet and dry mash methods. 



In the early morning a mixture of a variety of 

 grains is fed in litter, consisting of oats, wheat, 

 cracked Indian corn, a little coarse wheat, a few split 

 peas and a small quantity of dari or durra. Before 

 them is always a hopper in which is a mixture of one 

 part ground oats and three parts bran. 



At noon a small supply of the grains is again 

 given, merely to keep them employed. In the after- 

 noon a wet mash is provided, composed of about one- 

 third bran, one-quarter thirds or middlings, one- 

 quarter biscuit meal, one-eighth meat meal — fish 



