22 BRIGGS' SYSTEM OF 



Of course, you will have to vary this part of the sys- 

 tem according to the weather. Here you must use 

 judgment. The first thing in the morning, soon after 

 daylight as convenient, start out with a load of oats 

 and give each flock of sixty layers not more than one 

 quart of oats each. If the morning is warm, open 

 your windows. If cold, leave your windows closed 

 until 30ur next trip, after breakfast, about 8 to 9 a. m.- 



If morning is cold and freezing, you should take a 

 load of warm water and give each flock enough for the 

 day. The finest thing I know of to water a large plant 

 of this kind is a two gallon butter crock. Get the 

 low kind, for they are easil_y kept clean and require 

 but little labor in filling. Even if your hens have free 

 access to a stream of water, they should be watered 

 in their houses during the winter if you want a large 

 egg yield. In the morning, when your hen comes off 

 the roost, she is apt to be dry, especially if she is lay- 

 ing and it is very essential at this time that your hen 

 should have warm water to drink, for cold water 

 would chill her and make her dull and all hump up and 

 the result is your egg yield stops. 



W^hen you go around with your load of warm 

 water, you can, .at the same time, give 3'our hens a 

 light feeding of green cut bone, not over a pint to a 

 flock. And about 11 a. m. give them a light mash, 

 about one and one-half quarts to a flock, composed of 

 equal parts wheat bean, ground oats, corn meal, and 

 Alfalfa clover meal by measure. Put in a little salt 

 and mix with hot water. 



About 2 p. m. give each flock all they will eat 

 of processed oats. Feed this very liberal, as you will 

 find they will always be hungry for this and you can- 

 not over feed them on it. About four quarts to a 

 flock is about right. This is one of the greatest e.g^ 

 producers I know of (and there is nothing which 

 makes eggs so fertile. 



Your hen will eat these when she will look at noth- 

 ing else. It can be produced for ten cents a bushel at 

 the highest price — usually for eight cents a bushel. I 



