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feeding starts and should be adhered to so as to 

 get best results. Feed and feeding are not all ; when 

 fowls are not laying, it must not be thought that 

 the ration is necessarily at fault unless there is good 

 reason to believe so. Even though some other 

 ration may be better, it is not advantageous to 

 make a sudden change in its favor, because such 

 changes are sure to upset egg production for greater 

 or less time. Any changes found necessary should 

 be made gradually. It is just as important also to 

 feed at regular times and in regular amounts. "A 

 feast and famine" will never produce best results. 

 Every night the hen should go to roost with a full 

 crop and should find her breakfast ready for her 

 when she gets up. Success in poultry feeding, 

 especially for eggs, depends upon wholesome food 

 fed liberally, regularly and in variety, and upon 

 plenty of activity for the fowls. 



VALUE OF SKIM MILK 



At the West Virginia experiment station Profes- 

 sors Stewart and Atwood sought to determine the 

 value of skim milk for laying hens. On most farms 

 skim milk is fed to calves or pigs. Can fowls use 

 it to better advantage? Separator skim milk was 

 used. Generally during the colder months it was 

 sour when fed, and during the warmer periods 

 thick also. Two experiments were conducted, one 

 for 122 days, the other for three months. In the 

 first, two lots of Single Comb White Leghorn fowls 

 were used, each lot containing 20 hens and 2 cocks. 

 In the second each lot consisted of 60 hens and 6 

 cocks. 



The skim milk was used to moisten the ground 

 feed. This was usually fed in the morning, while 



