64 BRIGGS' SYSTEM OF 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



The best feed and where to get it. 



I want to say a few words here in regard to 

 quality of feed and where to buy. First, beef scraps. 

 This is one of the most important of my feeds, and 

 I have used all the leading makes, but have never 

 found any to give me the results that Spratt's Patent 

 has given me. I consider this far ahead of any made 

 at the present day. 



There is no chick food I have ever seen as good as 

 Rackham's Chick Grain, only it is higher in price than 

 the other makes ; but in quality it is way ahead, in 

 fact all their feeds are of the highest quality. You 

 will find their advertisement in this book. 



I have also made arrangements with D. Lincoln 

 Orr, Orr's Mills, XT. Y., to make a special chick feed 

 for me which will contain less than lo per cent of 

 ■cracked corn. Price $2.50 per hundred. Have also 

 made arrangements with him to supply wheat screen- 

 ing by the car load, or ton. 



I am also selling a screening feed for $25.00 per 

 ton free on board Buffalo. I use this entirely here on 

 the plant and it is giving grand results. I use it in 

 place of wheat screenings for hopper feeding. You 

 may find it very difficult to buy good wheat screenings 

 in your home market. If so, write D. Lincoln Orr, 

 Orr's Mills, Orange Co., N. Y. 



To show you what can be done, I built a large 

 plant for a party on this free range system and first of 

 August I put 300 hens on this system of feeding. 

 These hens had been confined in small yards all the 

 season and were put in an old barn for a week. Before 

 putting them in these colony houses. They had been 

 laying 30 to 40 eggs a day. AAiJhen I put them out, 

 they were laying 18 to 20 eggs daily. I put them on 

 free range, and put before them good wheat screen- 

 ings and Spratt's Patent beef scrap, and on the eighth 



