98 EGGS AND POULTRY 
ing the hens working not only for warmth 
but that they may not forget their duty of 
the morning—the laying of eggs. At noon, 
a wet mash of prepared laying mash is fed 
with 5% of beef scrap and 25% ‘steamed 
alfalfa and table scraps added. Mangel 
beets or cabbage are given as extra green 
stuff. At night another feeding of scratch 
food is given so they will go to roost with 
crops full of substantial grain. 
It is rather difficult to say just how much 
scratch feed to give, but about 18 pounds 
seems to satisfy 100 Leghorns. Of the wet 
mash, 5 quarts to the 100 hens is enough. 
But should the hens not eat the food up clean 
cut the amount until they do not leave any. 
The noon feed of the laying mash can be 
changed to one of your own mixture if pre- 
ferred. It is usually mixed about as follows: 
2 pounds wheat bran to one each of corn 
meal, linseed meal, middlings, beef scraps; 
or substitute for the scratch feed 1 quart each 
oats, wheat and buckwheat and 2 quarts 
cracked corn. 
The hopper should always contain grit of 
hen size, charcoal, beef scraps, and a dry 
mash of either of the noon feed ingredients, 
and oyster shells. Hens confined indoors 
