58 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



corn, I began to experiment with corn, and it was then that 

 I solved the secret of my failures. It will prevent you from 

 following the same road to failure that I followed so faith- 

 fully. It points out those rocks I stumbled over and which 

 you can now avoid. 



Now I went back to the S Method. I fed Pen No. 1 



two parts bran, one part corn-meal, 10% beef-scrap (ground 

 fine), and wheat for grain; Pen No. 2, one part bran, one part 

 corn-meal, 10% beef-scrap, and wheat for grain; Pen No. 3, 

 one part bran, one part corn-meal, 10% beef-scrap, with 

 wheat and corn for grain. Bran running high in protein was 

 used. The droppings in Pen No. 1 became very watery in a 

 short time, and two of the hens became sick and I had to 

 change the feed. Pen No. 2 did fairly well, while in Pen 

 No. 3 the hens came into fine condition, the droppings became 

 good, and they began to lay the finest, largest eggs I ever 

 saw. Here for the first time in many years I was at>le to 

 feed corn at all, and it was the first time I was ever able 

 to do so and get eggs. 



At the time I conducted the above experiments I also had 

 three pens on exactly the same rations, only I used a differ- 

 ent bran — a bran that was low in protein. Pen No. 1 with 

 this low protein bran — two parts bran, one part corn-meal, 

 and 10% beef-scrap — showed exactly the same condition that 

 those fine hens showed years before, exactly the same kind 

 of droppings, and all the same results. 



These experiments showed me plainly the causes of my 

 failures and my successes. My great trouble had been at 

 different places I would get grains and mill feeds which 

 varied greatly in the quantity of protein they possessed, and 

 as I never suspected this or never understood its real impor- 

 tance, I kept landing on the same old rock year after year. 

 I would get off the right track, feed wrong feeds, and waste 



