S8 BRIGGS' SYSTEM OF 



At I p. m. a light feeding of green cut bone, a 

 pint to a quart for 60 layers. 



At 3 p. m. all the processed oats they will take. 



At 4 p. m., or later, according to the time of the 

 year, another feeding of oats. This should be fed 

 to all large breeds in place of cracked corn. 



Always use clipped oats, and feed in the litter, 

 and you will not only get an abundance of eggs, but 

 eggs that will hatch, strong healthy chicks that will 

 live. Such eggs will run from 80 to 90 per cent fertile, 

 right in the winter months. 



I am not guessing at this, for I am doing it right 

 in February. 



Do not be afraid of the processed oats, but give 

 all they will possibly take, for they are very light and 

 it is impossible to overfeed on them. There is noth- 

 ing I have ever tried that will make hens lay equal to 

 them, and nothing so cheap. It costs only about half 

 to feed a plant this way. 



You can always sell any amount of eggs for hatch- 

 ing at $5.00 per 100. 



I am positive you could sell all a 3,000 laying plant 

 could produce for hatching by a liberal amount of ad- 

 vertising on the same lines I told you how to adver- 

 tise Leghorn eggs. 



You could sell a large quantity of breeders, for 

 good prices, if you will start with fairly good stock 

 and exhibit at the small shows on the start. 



One thing you have to contend with on a AVyan- 

 dotte plant, you do not on a Leghorn plant, and that 

 is setters. This means quite some work ; but you will 

 not have near the amount of setters on a plant fed 

 this way. 



To properly break up a setter, they should not 

 be allowed to remain on the nest the first night, and as 

 a rule three days will break up any setter. Or, if you 

 want to break her up in twenty-four hours, just put 

 her with a bunch of surplus cockerels where a roost 

 is handy and your hen will not think of setting. 



There is no breed at the present time so hand- 

 some as the White Wyandotte, when bred up for show 



