118 HOW I MADE $10,000 IN ONE YEAR 



During the late fall, throughout the winter and early 

 in the spring the outside doors of the watershed are 

 closed after the birds have gone to roost; and they are 

 not reopened until 7 or 8 o'clock next morning. During 

 heavy rains they are kept indoors all day. 



Feeding Laying Hens 



The layers have dry mash before them at all times. 

 Our standard formula of mash for laying hens follows: 



Pure Wheat Bran 640 pounds 



Wheat Shorts or low grade flour.... 320 pounds 



Ground Hulled Barley 200 pounds 



Yellow Feed Meal (Corn meal) 300 pounds 



Croley's High Protein Meat 300 pounds 



Croley's dried green bone 100 pounds 



Linseed Oilcake Meal 50 pounds 



Fine Charcoal 50 pounds 



Salt — finely sifted 20 pounds 



Total mixture 1980 pounds 



The meat product designated contains 75% of whale 

 meat and 25 ^c fish meal. 



The mash is mixed for us at the mill ; we supervise the 

 operation. It is put up in 80-pound bags, which we find 

 the most convenient size for handling. It is carried to 

 the troughs in the bags. This has been found an easier 

 and quicker method of handling than by loading on a 

 wheelbarrow or cart which would be hard pushing or 

 pulling through soft ground, and our ground is always 

 soft. 



