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houses are about the same as the laying houses, except that 

 the pens are smaller. We have about fifty pullets in a 

 flock in this laying house. We find this style of house 

 quite convenient, very satisfactory and not expensive. 



Feeding the Layers. 



We feed good, sound grain, wheat, oats, oarley, cracked 

 com on the cob, all fed in the litter. We are now feeding 

 nearly one-fourth com and in the dead of winter we feed 

 it five times a week for the evening meal. -Two evenings 

 we feed boiled oats in troughs. The other grains are fed 

 in about equal parts for the morning feed which is scattered 

 in the litter either after the fowls go to roost at night or 

 before they get off the perches in the morning. We keep 

 grit, shell, charcoal, beef scraps and dry mash (made after 

 the Mass. Experimental Station formula) before the fowls 

 in boxes all the time. During the latter part of the morn- 

 ing we feed vegetables, including cabbages hung by strings 

 from the roof, and sugar beets, mangel-wurzels or turnips 

 stuck on nails in the walls. Part of the time we give clover 

 and twice a week a feed of chopped onions. The clover 

 is sometimes cut and steamed, but more often it is fed dry 

 and uncut. They eat more of the steamed clover, but it 

 is quite satisfactory dry and uncut. 



The hens are treated the same as the pullets, but are 

 not fed so much food. Our methods are very simple and 

 can be put into operation by anyone. 



A Group of Colony Houses on the Poultry Farm of E. C. Willard 



