SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



it to cool before feeding in summer. Of this mash we feed what 

 our birds will eat up clean in about ten minutes, or approxi- 

 mately one quart to each twelve fowls. 



An hour before roosting time we feed a mixture of com, 

 wheat, oats, and buckwheat, equal parts, what they will eat, 

 well scattered in litter. During warm weather reduce the 

 amount of com and buckwheat one-half, as they are very heating. 

 See to, it that each pen is well supplied with good, sharp grit and 

 ground oyster shell and that your fowls are kept free from 

 vermin. 



J. H. JACKSON, Hudson, Mass. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 27. I practice giving dry feed and mash for the morn- 

 ing meal. Am in favor of dry mash on account of labor saved. 

 Give plenty of green cut grass or clover dry in winter, cut bone 

 or scraps, oats and cracked com at night. 



A. 28. In dry or hopper feeding, feed at noon green cut 

 vegetable food if possible; cut bone and oats or com at night. 



J. H. DOANE, Gouverneur. N. Y. 



BREEDER OF S. C. BLACK MINORCAS AND WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 27. Wheat, oats, buckwheat and barley, in the order 

 named for choice. Plenty of vegetables (ensilage from the silo 

 is most welcomed by the hens), green bone fed very lightly and 

 ground feed made in a stiff mash not oftener than every other 

 morning. Fresh water, a liberal supply of good grit, shells and 

 charcoal, I believe too little litter is supplied in most cases for 

 the good of the fowls and to promote good laying. The writer 

 never yet put Minorcas in the show room but that they were 

 not only in laying condition, but actually laying, as many can 

 well remember who have seen them on exhibition. 



A. 28. As above, three times daily. 



DRY FOOD RATIONS 



ALBERT F. DIKEMAN, So. Peabody, Mass. 



DREEDER OF WHITE WYANDOTTES AND WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 27. We use self-feeding hoppers containing giit, shell, 

 charcoal and good beef scraps, (substitute green bone for scraps 

 from Oct. 1st to May Ist); a dry mash mixture, 50 per cent 

 ground oats, 25 per cent bran, 25 per cent com meal, (by weight). 

 A hard grain mixture of wheat, com, ba'rley, kaffir com, sun- 

 flower seed, buckwheat, oats, etc., ratio varying according to 

 the season of the year at which it is fed, but the basis of it is 

 always 50 per cent good white wheat; no buckwheat in summer 

 and very Uttle com. 



A. 28. A half feed of hard grains in a. m., a full feed of 

 same an hour before sundown, aU fed in deep Utter. In season, 

 green bone one noon and some kind of fresh natural green vege- 

 table food the altemate noon, substituting steamed alfalfa and 

 scrap when green bone and natural green food is unavailable. 



W. R. CURTISS & CO., Ransomville, N. Y. 



BREEDERS OF WHITE WYANDOTTES. SINGLE-COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 

 AND MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCKS 



A. 27. AU dry feed, dry grain and mash. 

 A. 28. Feed before them at all times. 



J. C. FISHEL & SON, Hope, Ind. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALISTS 



A. 27. Simply whole grain, a mixture; not too much 

 com. We advocate dry feed. 



A. 28. Dry feed mixture of grain twice a day only; in 

 hot weather only once and that in the moming. 



ROWLAND G. BUFFINTON, Sotnerset, Mass. 



BREEDER OF BUFF, SILVER PENCILED AND COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES; 

 BUFF AND PARTRIDGE PLYMOUTH ROCKS; BUFF ORPING- 

 TONS; RHODE ISLAfJD REDS; BUFF, BLACK, WHITE 

 AND PARTRIDGE COCHIN BANTAMS 



A. 27. We have fed dry mash for eight years and at 

 first about 90 per cent of the poultrymen called us crazy; the 

 90 per cent are on my side now. 



A. 28. Keep the dry mash before them nearly all day. 

 Give a small amount of cracked com, wheat aad oats at noon. 



U. R. FISHEL, Hope, Ind. 



WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 27. Com, oats, wheat, green out bone, sunflower and 

 sorghum seed. 



A. 28. Mostly dry feed, twice a day. 



CHAS. E VASS, Washington, N. J. 



BREEDER OF SINGLE AND ROSE-COMB BUEF ORPINGTONS AND SIN'GLE- 

 COMB WHITE AND BLACK ORPINGTONS 



A. 27. In the hatching season our diet runs as follows: 

 Wheat or barley in the moming scattered in litter, oats at noon, 

 com at night, heated in severe cold weather. Three times per 

 week green bone takes the place of oats for the noon feed; 

 oyster shells, grit, etc., is always before them. 



D. F. PALMER & SON, Yorkville, 111. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALISTS 



A. 27. Wheat, oats and com, and a good grass run. 

 A. 28. Keep new com on the ear before them all the 

 time in the fall as soon as it is hard enough to pick from the cob. 



CHARLES G. PAPE, Fort Wayne, Indiana 



S. C. BLACK MINORCA SPECIALIST 



A, 27. Sprinkle grain in chafi; small per cent of whole 

 com, wheat, barley and sunflower seed. 

 A. 28. Three times daily. 



WM. H. ROBINSON, La Fayette, Ind. 



BREEDER OF BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS AND WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 27. My breeding stock are properly housed, and are 

 hopper fed; that is, I feed all hard grain in Utter three times a 

 day; a hopper each of beef scraps, dry bran and one of cracked 



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