THE MATURE FOWLS 



at noon and plenty of com at night, oyster shell and grit always 

 handy. Winter time, feed roots, boiled potatoes, etc., once in 

 a while. 



G. MONROE WOOD, WoodviUe, N. Y. 



WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 27. We feed mixed grains consisting of wheat, crack- 

 ed com, barley and oats, equal parts by measure. This we feed 

 morning and night; at noon we feed a mash composed of equal 

 parts of oatmeal, com meal, and bran, also beef scraps, 2 pounds 

 to 100 hens; oil meal, J pound to 100 hens; a handful of salt to 

 whole flock of 800 hens, the whole mixed to a crumbly mash 

 with milk if we have it, if not water or whey. This is for summer. 



In winter we feed cut clover thoroughly steamed to wet 

 up the mash with. We also feed mangel wurzels in winter. 



A. 28. The same as for breeding stock. 



soaked in hot water over night, adding one ounce of green cut 

 bone for each bird. At noon and again about an hour before 

 roosting time I give a feed of either oats, wheat or com. 



A. 28. Just about the same as 27, except that I make 

 the mash cold and leave out the cut clover and green bone as 

 the weather grows warmer, also cutting the amount down as 

 they are tumed out on their range. 



AUG. D. ARNOLD, Dillsburg, Pa. 



COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 27. Wheat, com and oats mixed at noon and night, 

 with cut clover, bran and shorts with hot water and left to cool 

 for moming. The wheat, com and oats is thrown into straw 

 and litter in order to make them work. 



MRS. H. W. HAND, White Hall, 111. 



WHITE WYANDOTTES EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 27. I feed my breeding and all adult stock a light feed 

 of small grain, principally wheat in the litter in the moming, 

 and either steamed oats or a carefully balanced mash at noon, 

 and all they will eat of mixed grain or whole com at night. 



HARMON BRADSHAW, Lebanon, Ind. 



8. C. WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 27. Hot mash in moming, mixed grains at noon and 

 nightj com, wheat, oats, millet and kaffir com. 



A. 28. Feed the mash in troughs and the grains in straw 

 60 they will have to work. 



C. L. PENCYL, Bloomsburg, Pa. 



BREEDER OF BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 27. I usually feed a mixture of wheat, cracked com, 

 Clipped oats, buckwheat; feed this every moming thrown among 

 straw for exercise. At noon I feed greens, sometimes a bran 

 mash, just wet enough to hold together; don't believe in very 

 wet and sloppy feeds. At night I Usually feed whole com, some- 

 times mixed with wheat. 



A. 28. The same as above, three times per day. 



W. W- KULP, Pottstown, Pa. 



BREEDER OF SINGLE AND ROSE-COMB WHITE AND BROWN LEG- 

 HORNS, WHITE WYANDOTTES, BUFF AND BARRED 

 ROCKS, AND PEKIN DUCKS 



. A. 27 In the moming I make a mixture of bran, mid- 

 dlings, com meal and meat. Noon, wheat; evening, com with 

 greens. 

 \.y^'A. 28. Same as 27. 



F. C. SHEPARD, Toledo, Ohio 



SPECIALTY BREEDER OF BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 27. A warm mash in the moming made of ground 

 com, oats and wheat bran mixed with cut clover that has been 



E. B. THOMPSON, Amenia, N. Y. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 27. Wheat, cracked com, oats and a mash made of 

 ground grains. Some beef scrap or green cut bone is fed, also 

 green food. The breeders have large grassy runs and plenty 

 of exercise. The above mash is made of hominy, ground oats, 

 wheat middlings and bran. Cabbage makes the best green 

 food. 



A. 28. Similar to breeding stock and twice a day. 



C. H. WELLES, Stratford, Conn. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 27. Mash in the moming consisting of cut clover or 

 alfalfa, the best prepared meat, ground oats, wheat bran and a 

 very little com meal. At noon and evening, cracked com and 

 whole wheat fed ia litter of straw or leaves. 



A. 28. Whole wheat, cracked com and oats two or three 

 times a day. | 



BRADLEY BROS., Lee, Mass. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALISTS 



A. 27. Mash once a day (p. m.), made of meal, ground 

 wheat, bran, oatmeal or rolled oats, broken rice aid best beef 

 scraps with ground clover or alfalfa scalded in boiling water; 

 when cooled stir in oats, etc., to make it crumbly. Mixed 

 grain, a. m. and p. m. 



A. 28. See above. Night, full feed; aftemoon, mash; 

 moming, gram enough to make them scratch. 



MRS. TILLA LEACH, Cheneyville, 111. 



r''FI'DER OF BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 27. Com, wheat, oats, etc. for breakfast fed in the 

 litter, some cam on cob in good weather. For supper a mash 

 composed of boiled oats, table scraps, bran, com meal, beef 

 scraps, etc. In winter, ol- when they cannot get green food, I 

 add clover or alfalfa meal or clover blossoms, leaves, etc., from 

 under the huller where the clover is hulled for seed. I find the 

 latter, if from clover that did not get Wet, fully as good as clover 

 meal and much cheaper. 



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