42 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



understood how to feed ourselves properly, such things might 

 be prevented. Everyone knows that "an ounce of prevention 

 is worth a pound of cure." 



Obtaining a chance of a better place, I now moved again. 



Again I tried the S Method, but the hens did not want 



to eat it. I turned them all out, and they went straight to 

 a manure pile where they got an abundance of bugs. I put 

 out a sack of wheat for them, and the eggs began to come 

 fast. They laid so many eggs and in so many different places 

 that it kept me busy looking for nests. The hens were in 

 good condition now and kept right on laying. 



I had ten pens about six feet square, with five hens in 

 each. These I fed as I had fed my pet hen. The food con- 

 sisted of the very best bread, thoroughly dried and ground 

 to the size of coarse bran. Here is the formula: 

 10 Bread, 



1 Milk ground fine, 

 Wheat and green feed. 

 Feed the bread and milk dry and keep it before hens 

 at all times. 



Since my first experience with the S Method I had 



always fed my hens green food. Each of the pens was fed 

 on the above food. One pen was fed 1 part of milk to 5 

 parts of ground bread, and the next pen a little more bread 

 and less milk, and so on until the last pen got 1 part of milk 

 to 20 parts of bread. 



The hens that got 1 part of milk to 5 parts of bread laid 

 smaller eggs than the others. The pen that got 20 parts of 

 bread to 1 of milk did not lay quite as many eggs. It seemed 

 that the ration given to the pen that got 1 part of milk to 

 10 parts of bread was the most evenly balanced, and I there- 

 fore began to feed all the pens in that proportion. Those 

 hens laid more eggs than any hens I had ever owned in my 



