32 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



the end of a week there were a lot of fat hens but no more 

 eggs. 



I would then go back to the bran treatment again and get 

 the same results as I got before. I repeated this several 

 times, as I wished to be sure, and' each time I got the same 

 results. I concluded, therefore, that I thoroughly under- 

 stood that part of the poultry business and decided to change 

 my feed a little. 



After feeding bran and wheat for a week I did not feed 

 the S receipt, but used instead the following formula: 



% Bran 



% Middlings 



% B. B. & B. 



Wheat S qts. to 100 hens 



Green food. 



The hens started to lay just'as they did when they received 



the S receipt, and at the end of two weeks I was getting 



66% of eggs per day. I then began to look for the soft- 

 shelled eggs to appear, and I was also expecting my hens 

 to stop laying as the days went on, but the soft-shelled eggs 

 did not appear and my hens kept on laying and did not stop. 

 Now, in order to be sure that it was the corn that prevented 

 them from laying, I put corn in the mash instead of the 

 middlings and in a few days soft-shelled eggs began to 

 appear and in a short time the hens stopped laying. Then 

 I cut out the corn in the receipt and put in middlings, and 

 in a short time my hens began to lay again. I repeated this 

 experiment over and over and over again and got exactly 

 ,the same result every time. 



t began to think I knew something about the poultry 

 business. Had I not by repeated experiments proved that 

 corn was not good for laying hens? I had proved it over and 



