28 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



feet deep in water, as was the house I was living in; we were 

 in the center of a stream a mile wide where formerly it was 

 only about one hundred feet wide. The water came within 

 two inches from coming into the house and the hens were 

 perched on their roosts for three days. I came to the con- 

 clusion that where there was three feet of water it was not 

 the best place for raising chickens. Either I would have 

 to go into the duck business or move, so I concluded to 

 move. 



I began again in the fall to raise chickens at another loca- 

 tion. When I had no more than got started, the wind blew 

 my living! house down, so I decided to leave this place also. 

 After getting another place I again began to raise chickens, 

 and this time I was successful and raised nearly all I hatched. 

 A large incubator company, seeing the success I was having, 

 and the interest that I was creating in the poultry business 

 at this place, appointed me their agent and as such I became 

 very well known in this vicinity. Everything here was 



going well and I sent $1.00 to a poultry paper for S 's 



Method of Feeding Hens for Eggs. The formula and direc- 

 tions were as follows: 



$4 part of Corn Meal, 

 J4 part of Beef Scrap, 

 % part of Coarse Bran. 

 Feed enough of this mixture so that the hens eat it 

 up clean before night. Feed dry. By this system of 

 feeding hens seldom have indigestion and will lay all 

 the eggs you desire. With this system of feeding 

 hens do not require green food. By actual test hens 

 that had no green food layed better than those that 

 did have. Keep grits, bone, shells and charcoal be- 

 fore them at all time and feed equal parts of corn, 

 wheat, and oats, S quarts per day to 100 hens. 



