THE MATURE FOWLS 



then thinned with buttermilk. Add a little oil meal, then 

 wheat, bran and middlings to thicken to proper consistency 

 for feeding, and a grain ration of cracked com, oats, wheat and 

 buckwheat twice a day; when no grass run we keep cabbage or 

 roots (beets) constantly before them. 



A. 28. Three times a day, as above explained. 



different varieties of ground grains at night. Green food is 

 kept before them at all times, such as cabbage and mangel 

 wurzels. 



A. 28. I feed about the same as above and three times 

 a day. 



H J BLANCHARD, Groton,. N. Y. 



S. C. WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 27. Wheat, cracked com, and oats for whole grains, 

 about three parts wheat, two parts com, and one part oats. 

 Also use a moist mash and a dry mash composed of com meal 

 two parts, wheat bran one part, wheat middlings or ground oats 

 one part, alfalfa meal one part, beef scraps one part — all by 

 measure. Green food for summer is clover, and for winter 

 mangel-wurzel. Crushed oyster shell, grit and charcoal before 

 them at all times. 



A. 28. A light whole grain ration scattered in Utter in 

 the morning, next, green food. At midday moist mash to some 

 and dry mash to others, fed in troughs. Toward night a full 

 ration of whole grains in litter. Also use some com in the ear 

 in winter to amuse and promote exercise. 



A. & E. TARBOX, Yorkville, 111. 



SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 27. A patent poultry food; balanced ration grain food, 

 wheat, oats and com. 



A. 28. Same as above, three times a day. 



F. W. RICHARDSON, Hicksville, Ohio 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS EXCLUSIVELY 



.A. 27. > For grains I feed soft feed once a day, usually 

 in the morning. Feed wheat, com, oats and barley mixed for 

 whole grain. Feed oats and barley scattered in litter; cut 

 clover hay and cabbage for bulky food mostly in winter season. 

 Have plenty of grass in runs for summer. 



A. 28. Feed soft mash of com and oats in evening, whole 

 com, wheat and oats noon and evening. 



ARTHUR G. BOUCK, Frankfort, N. Y. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 27. I feed mash about four times a week composed 

 of bran, com meal, middlings, ground oats and alfalfa meal 

 with a small quantity of linseed meal added. My other feed 

 consists of com, cracked and whole, oats, barley, and a little 

 wheat, with an occasional feeding of green cut bone. Beef 

 scraps, grit, oyster shell and cljarcoal are fed from hoppers. 

 Cabbage and small potatoes are fed for green food in winter. 



A. 28. I feed adult stock same as breeding stock, three 

 times a day in summer and twice a day in winter. When fowls 

 are confined I feed the grain in litter. 



IRVING F. RICE, Courtland, N. Y. 



S. C. WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 27. Wheat, oats, barley, etc., small grains in the 

 morning; mash composed of meat meal, cooked vegetables and 



J. T. THOMPSON, Hope, Ind. 



BREEDER OF WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS AND MAMMOTH 

 BRONZE TURKEYS 



A. 27; I feed my breedng stock about twice per week a 

 mash food composed of equal parts of wheat bran, meal, and 

 ground oats, and I add to this cooked vegetables. In mixing 

 this feed be careful not to get it too wet, add just enough water 

 to make the food crumbly when put into the feed troughs. 

 The evening feed, as I only feed twice per day, consists of wheat, 

 com and oats, scattered well in the straw so as to make them 

 work for it. During the coldest weather I feed more com, as 

 there are more heat-producing elements in com than any other 

 grain. I always keep my birds weU supplied with charcoal, as 

 that helps a great deal in keeping them healthy. Every fall I 

 sow several fields in rye, which they have access to all winter. 

 I also cover the floors of my houses every fall with about 3 inches 

 of fine gravel which furnishes them with plenty of grit all winter 

 and at small cost. The mornings that I don't feed the mash 

 food I feed oats one morning and wheat the next. 



WILBER BROS., Petros, Tennessee 



S. C. WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALISTS 



A. 27. How and when to feed fowls in order to secure 

 the best results is one of the greatest questions for the average 

 poultry keeper. We must feed our fowls so as to keep them in a 

 good, healthy condition. If this is done, it naturally follows 

 that we will get fertile eggs and plenty of them. While we do 

 not claim our method of feeding to be the only correct one, it 

 gives us satisfactory results, and we take pleasure in presenting 

 it herewith, hoping that it wiU prove helpful to some one who 

 is having trouble along this line. 



The first thing in the moiTiing (as soon after dayUght as 

 possible) we give a pint of mixed grain, com, wheat, oats, and 

 buckwheat, equal parts, to each twenty-five fowls; well scattered 

 in the litter of the scratching shed. If for any reason it should 

 be inconvenient for the attendant to get out so early as this, 

 it may be done just as well the night before, after the fowls 

 have gone to roost, in order that they may begin working it out 

 next morning as soon as it is fight enough for them to see. At 

 9 o'clock we give them water and hang a head of cabbage in each 

 pen. At 11:30 they are quite hungry, having worked steadily 

 all morning in the Utter of the scratching-shed, and are ready 

 for their noon meal, which is a soft mash, prepared as foUows: 



Commeal, ground oats, wheat bran, shorts or middlings, 

 and ground beef scrap, one part by measure. These are placed 

 in the mash tub and thoroughly mixed. To this we add two 

 quarts of clover-meal (thoroughly steamed) for each 100 fowls. 

 Next comes the vegetable matter, which may be boiled potatoes, 

 turnips, or cabbage, which ever is most convenient, to the 

 amount of one part. Two days in the week omit the boiled 

 vegetables, adding instead, the same quantity of boiled rice. 

 Rice has no particular feeding value for fowls other than it pre- 

 vents bowel trouble and allows us to feed more Uberally of 

 meat than we could otherwise. 



The above mixture is moistened with boiling water' .(in 

 which a small quantity of salt has been dissolved, to a Crumbly 

 consistency, not sloppy) and fed while warm in winter, aUoWmg 



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