room, transfer your chickens from one yard to another and 

 alternately flood them with water. Great care must be taken 

 in using water to see that the houses, runs and yards dry 

 out sufficiently before the chickens are put into them. 



A FORMULA FOR THE FEEDING OF BROILERS FOR 



THE EARLY MARKET 



Mixture No. 1 



One part feed meal. 



One part cotton seed meal 



One part coacoanut meal 



One part rolled oats. 

 After this mix together the following : 



One part laying mash. 



One part bran. 



One half part of Mixture No. 1. 



One half part of com meal. 



Five percent beef scraps. 



Five percent charcoal. 

 Salt well, but avoid using too much at a time ; the idea is 

 to get the chickens to eat and drink as much as possible. 



Mix to a crumbly consistency and add one part of alfalfa 

 meal. Great care must be used in feeding salt. 



THE SPECIAL CULLING AND FEEDING OF PULLETS 

 FOR EGG PRODUCTION 



It is the rule of many successful poultrymen to always 

 give pullets a chance their first year, but after many years 

 study and experience I have found that it really pays to cull 

 pullets. I would not cull them until they are about six 

 months old. At that time first pick out those that are matur- 

 ing the fastest and feed them in the ordinary way that you 

 would feed a pullet just beginning to lay. Now the seconds 

 should be placed in separate runs and gradually forced for 

 egg production. You will find that by doing this both firsts 

 and seconds will come into their own much quicker and you 

 will have a flock of much better hens than if they were kept 

 together. Those pullets that you will throw out entirely 

 should be weak or immature birds, crownecks, runts and all 

 those of low vitality. 



These may be placed in small runs and fattened for the 



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