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convenient, about 9 a. m. Give each flock all the pro- 

 cessed oats they will take. .Vt i p. m., when you give 

 your ilocks more water, or put in warm water with 

 what they have, give on this trip a light feeding of 

 green cut bone — a quart to a flo.ck of sixty, if they 

 will take that much, if not, cut them down to a pint. 



About 3 p. m. give another feeding of processed 

 oats, all they will eat. Remember, these only cost 

 eight to ten cents a bushel. 



Before dark give not over one quart of cracked 

 corn to a flock and gather your eggs. If it is very 

 cold weather, you will also have to gather your eggs 

 on your I o'clock trip. 



These birds must have always before them grit, 

 oyster shells and charcoal. Also a hopper of beef 

 scraps and one of wheat screenings or screening feed. 



Just a word about mating up your breeders to 

 produce chickens which should practically everyone 

 live. 



To do this, take all your yearling hens and mate 

 them with cockerels, not less than ten months old. 

 Put these birds on my free range s_ystem and feed as 

 I have here directed, }0u can then raise practically 

 every chick you hatch. 



Pullets also hatched in February and March, 

 mated to good vigorous yearling cocks, will also pro- 

 duce chickens that arc very hardy when a year old,, 

 and you should have no trouble in raising go to 95 

 per cent of these chicks. 



Under no circumstances use anything but a single 

 comb white Leghorn for the greatest profit, because 

 they lay the largest egg of the Leghorn family and 

 are by far the most popular of the Leghorn family. 



To dispose of your breeders at the best advantage 

 during July, August and September, you should make 

 a great clearance sale at $1.00 each. You will have 

 no trouble to dispose of all your surplus stock at this 

 price, and you will find this far preferable to putting 

 them in the market. 



Care for your plant during the "Summer as I laid 

 down for Summer care and feedingf. 



