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can tell at a glance upon entering the yards about what 

 food they will require. Cabbages are hung up for them 

 to pick at and fine chopped potatoes are fed raw; beef 

 scraps, granulated bone, charcoal, oyster shell, bran and 

 grit are always kept before them in hoppers and during 

 cold weather plenty of warm water is furnished them fre- 

 quently. We wish to lay special emphasis on this for we 

 find when we analyze an egg. that a good sized hen's egg 

 weighs about two ounces, and is about 64 parts water and 

 in order to produce eggs, a fowl must have the material 

 necessary. As it is necessary to gather the eggs quite 

 often during the severe cold weather to prevent freezing 

 the attendant collecting the eggs always carries warm 

 water to replenish any fountains that are dry, or are be- 

 ginning to freeze. Rock salt is also before the fowls where 

 they can get at it at will, and right here let me say that I 

 consider it just as necessary to supply your fowls with salt 

 ' as it is to supply any other live stock. 



This is the method of feeding that was followed the past 

 winter, and we were successful in having our egg basket 

 well filled during the severest winter weather. This winter 

 we feed in much the same manner. For the morning meal 

 we take equal parts of wheat, oats and barley, at noon 

 mixture of wheat, oats, kaffir com, cracked com, millet 

 and buckwheat, and the evening meal consists of small 

 cracked com. For the mash we use one of the prepared 

 mash foods made by a reliable poultry supply house, to 

 which is added all of the table and vegetable scraps, also 

 steamed cut clover. 



Our lajnng houses are shed roof structures well built, 

 seven feet high in the front and four feet high in the rear, 

 facing the south, with a board floor, divided into pens 

 eight by sixteen feet, by board . and wire netting parti- 

 tions, two pens to a house. These pens will each accommo- 

 date a flock of twenty-five fowls and keep them comfortable. 

 The roof is made of a good grade of matched lumber, which 

 is covered with a good grade of prepared roofing. There 

 are four windows in the front of each pen with the lower 

 sash stationary and the upper sash hung with hinges at 

 the top so that the sash will swing out below for ventila- 



