POULTRY RAISING 23 



will tell you in my next chapter how to process these 

 oats. This alone is worth hundreds of dollars to any- 

 one who keeps a large plant, as I will prove to you 

 further on. 



,For your last round, just before sundown, give 

 each fiock a quart of cracked corn in their litter, to give 

 them more exercise. Gather your eggs and close up 

 your windows. If weather is very warm, leave one 

 of your windows open or partly open in scratching 

 part. You must use judgment in these things. A 

 plant cared for this way during the winter should give 

 you fifty to sixty per cent egg yield, right through, 

 providing your pullets are laying age and your old 

 hens have passed through their moult. 



You will see that I feed four times as much 

 processed oats as I do of any other kind of feed. Oats 

 to a hen is what oats are to a horse. It gives them 

 vigor and puts life in them, such as no other feed will 

 do. Always use the best clipped oats. 



■ If you follow these instructions to the letter, and 

 use judgment in keeping your houses from getting too 

 warm during the day, you will never fail to bring in a 

 load of eggs every day in the year. - 



Always empty your water jars at night on this 

 last trip, so your hens will always be dry in the morn- 

 ing when you come around with your load of warm 

 water. This is very important. 



