58 EGG MONEY 



At noon give a small feed of whole wheat and about twice 

 a week this may be changed to whole or cracked corn. 

 Barley may be substituted for oats part of the time, if de- 

 sired, but the birds do not take to it quite as well. Green 

 ground bone should be fed about twice a week, or, if that 

 is not obtainable, beef scraps should be before them all the 

 time. It is of course absolutely necessary to supply them 

 with grit and oyster shell, or its equivalent, and pure water 

 at all times. Mj' fowls also get all the milk they will con- 

 sume every other day. 



My houses are built on the continuous laying house plan, 

 the pens are from eight by ten to twelve by fourteen feet 

 in area, some are double boarded and stuffed with wild haj', 

 sides and ceihng; others have tarred paper with drop siding 

 on outside, and patent lath, plastered on the inside. All 

 have earth floors with stone or concrete foundations ex- 

 tending into the groimd from eight to twelve inches. Every- 

 thing is kept as clean as we can keep it. All the houses 

 are whitewashed inside, and the roosts, etc., are sprayed 

 with lice killer once a week. The houses all face the south 

 and the windows are open whenever the weather will per- 

 mit. No male birds are allowed with the hens until I am 

 ready to save eggs for hatching and mate up the breeding 

 pens in February. 



Supper by Lantern Light is a Feature of this Metliod. 



By M. W. Baldwin. 



I will own up right now that specializing for winter eggs 

 is not in my line; at the same time I generally put aside 

 one pen for fresh eggs and from that pen always get what 

 I'm after. This particular pen is generally made up of a 

 lot of early hatched pullets, and occasionally a few hens of 

 pronounced laying ability. The house they occupy is about 

 the poorest in my establishment, but is patched up for win- 

 ter so that it is free from drafts, and their roosting quarters 

 are double-walled, papered and curtained, so they sleep^ 

 warm. During the day they have the run of a big, dry 



