ISO 



PROFITABLE POULTRY PRODUCTION 



always acceptable, especially during hot weather. 

 It should not, however, take the place of water. 

 During the hot weather, too, the corn part of the 

 ration should be reduced even to total exclusion. 



When hens cease laying unduly early in the 

 summer, when managed in the usual way, these 

 should be culled out and managed differently from 



SIDE HILL POULTRY HOUSE 

 Lower floor, a scratching shed; upper, for laying, roosting, etc. 



the balance of the flock. As a rule, a heavy laying 

 ration, with reduced exercise, may start them lay- 

 ing again. Those that do not begin within a rea- 

 sonable tim^ should be marketed, and even the 

 ones that lay for only a few weeks and then 



