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cracked corn and gather your eggs. If you follow up 

 this system, the hens will keep right at it all during the 

 moulting season. You must make your rounds every 

 week during the summer and fill all your hoppers, one 

 with beef scraps, one with wheat screenings. Also 

 3-our grit, oyster shells and charcoal. These must be 

 before them winter and summer. Never let them get 

 empty, and when freezing weather comes in the fall, 

 you must change your plans at once if you want the 

 egg yield to hold up. Remember this is where the 

 profit comes in. Under no circumstances let your 

 hens fall off on, eggs, so start on your winter rations 

 as I have outlined in a previous chapter, just as soon 

 as severe weather of November comes on. 



During the summer, your windows are to be left 

 open day and night; also your door, providing your 

 plant in enclosed with a wire netting fence such as I 

 described in opening chapter of this book. 



You must remember one thing. If you let your 

 fowls get knocked out in any way, through careless- 

 ness, it will take three to four weeks to get them back 

 again. And you in, the meantime have lost a month's 

 laying of eggs. So great care and judgment must be 

 used. Sickness will scarcely be known under these 

 conditions. Your hens should always be in the pink 

 of condition, and your eggs from January to Septem- 

 ber should run 90 per cent fertile and give wonderful 

 hatches. I think you will agree with me that this is 

 caring for fowls the nearest to nature's way of any 

 system known at the present time. 



