76 EGG MONEY 



best food obtainable. Your little account book will tell the 

 ^tory at the end of the year. 



Sunlight, Pure Air and Exercise are as Necessary as Good 



Foods. 



By A. J. Saterstrom. 



"How do you manage to get your hens to lay so many 

 €ggs in winter?" is a question frequently put to us by 

 our neighbors. There is a time of the year when we are 

 all planning for winter eggs. We wish to give a few hints 

 along our experience in securing them. We believe most 

 any variety or breed can be made to lay in winter by proper 

 care and housing. As our regular business allows us but 

 limited time for the care of our fowls we cannot keep a 

 large number; we expect to winter about one himdred 

 hens each winter. 



For several years our hens would not yield to the care 

 we gave them as well as we thought they should and we 

 finally concluded that the fault was with the hoiise. We 

 built the house from the best material and employed a 

 good carpenter, but, although it was warm, it seemed 

 dead and gloomy. We had put the windows quite a way 

 up from the floor and ventilation was not very good. So 

 we went to work and cut the windows down to fifteen 

 or eighteen inches from the floor and made them twice 

 the former size; we also cut a hole in the south wall twelve 

 by forty-eight inches, near the ceiling and made two flues, 

 four by six inches, reaching through the roof and ceiling and 

 down to within ten inches of the floor. That made excellent 

 ventilation and we now have a house with plenty of sunlight 

 in it as well as a constant flow of fresh, sweet air. 



We give our hens fresh water in the morning, leaving 

 it in the basins until next morning, when the basins are 

 cleaned and refilled. We keep the water basin so that 

 the hens cannot step into or soil the water and high enough 

 so the fowls cannot scratch any straw into it, thus keep- 

 ing before them at all times a supply of clean water. 



We use no artificial heat but had no ice on the water 

 except once or twice, all last winter, although we kept 



