136 MY POULTRY DAY BY DAY 
parents, and forty White Leghorns, and put them in pens of twenty 
birds, ten of each breed, and keep them as follows for a year :— 
Pen 1.—Intensive and dry mash. 
Pen 2.—Intensive and wet mash. 
Pen 3.—Semi-intensive and dry mash. 
Pen 4.—Semi-intensive and wet mash. 
The following year the birds to be mated up anew and careful 
note kept of the stamina of the progeny. 
I think nothing could be better or fairer than the above sugges- 
tion. Not only do you get the feeding systems tested, but the 
housing methods are dealt with at the same time. It will also 
tell us whether the rival systems are equally good for light and 
heavy breeds, 
There are some critics who say that dry mash and intensive 
housing may be suitable for light breeds such as Leghorns, but 
quite unsuitable for heavy breeds such as Wyandottes, Buff Orping- 
tons and Rhode Island Reds. Speaking for myself, I am con- 
vinced that dry mash is the ideal method for Leghorns, no matter 
what the system of housing, and I can also add from my own 
experience that White Wyandottes and Buff Orpingtons do quite 
well treated by the same methods. 
