60 EGG MONEY 



one that lays 30 eggs in 60 days during winter and keeps 

 up much the same gait during the rest of the year. 



Warm Houses and Good Feeding Make Hens Lay in Cold 



Weather. 

 By S. V. Johns. 



I give my birds the best of care during September and 

 October; I feed oil meal and crushed sunflower seed during 

 the molting season, but no meat of any kind, and I let 

 my hens rest while molting. After the molting is over I 

 feed during the month of November, in the morning, a 

 wai;m mash of com, oats and bran, ground, with a little of 

 some good prepared poultry food and some beef scraps. 

 During the middle of the day I feed plenty of cabbage, and 

 in the evening I feed wheat which puts their blood in good 

 condition and improves their flesh. 



During the winter we feed wheat for breakfast which 

 is thrown in a litter of straw, a foot thick, in the scratch- 

 ing shed and the work of scratching it out keeps the fowls 

 warm. I hang a head of cabbage in each pen of twenty 

 birds. I use a green bone cutter and give them green 

 cut bone three times a week. For the evening meal I 

 give a little shelled corn. We have used these methods for 

 years and have always had eggs to sell all winter and the 

 birds have always been healthy. 



Some may desire to know about the constiiiction of my 

 poultry house. It was built with a shed roof having' a three 

 foot pitch. The outside of the frame work is covered with 

 tar-paper, with drop-siding to the weather. Tar-paper is 

 also placed on the inside of the frame' work and ceiled over 

 with boards. The roof is covered with rough boards, then 

 with a layer of tar-paper and shingled, the shingles being 

 laid five inches to the weather. Board floors are used. 



Methods That Make Winners and Layers in South Dakota^ 

 By a: J. Keith,; 



My winter laying house is very warm, boarded on inside 

 and outside of the studding. There is tar-paper on the 



