FEEDING FOR WINTER EGQS. 



How Several Prominent Poultry Breeders Care for and 

 Feed Their Fowls to Obtain the Greatest Number of 

 Eggs in the Season of High Prices — ^A Symposium. 



Methods of Feeding That Are Effective During the Cold 



Minnesota Winters. 



By E. S. Person. 



While I have never made any great effort to get my 

 hens to lay early in the winter, from all my experience 1 

 know that it can be done, right here, during our cold Minne- 

 sota winters, with the proper care, housing and food. I 

 have been mostly concerned in producing strong, fertile 

 eggs for myself and my customers after the first of Janu- 

 ary, and, while in some years eggs will be better than in 

 others, I have never had very much trouble in accomplish- 

 ing that result. 



My methods are very simple and right here let me say 

 that I do not believe in using; a lot of patent, so-called 

 "egg foods." I do not doctor my fowls very much and do 

 not have to. I feed good ^Yhole grain which is always thrown 

 in deep litter, with occasionally a mash of ground food 

 and steamed cut clover. After the grass is gone and hens 

 and pullets are taken from their range in the fall, it is nec- 

 essary to pjrovide a goodly supply of green food in some 

 form. We are using for this purpose, sugar beets, cabbages, 

 turnips, onions, small potatoes and even the peelings from 

 the vegetables and apples used in the kitchen. 



If*eggs^re the' only object, I should say feed this mash 

 eve^y evening hn hour or so before dark. Let them have all 

 they will eat^lup clean and remove the troughs after the 

 f owlS'have^tAeion thie roosts at night. For the morning feed 

 there is nothing like whole oats in deep scratching litter. 



