Personal Experiences 59 



months and months, experimenting with a variety of foods, 

 when all I really required was corn. If I had only known 

 enough to stay with bran, corn or middlings, beef-scrap and 

 wheat, and had not used false feeds, what a difference there 

 would have been in my life! 



I have found that with some grains, though they are scarce, 

 more eggs can be obtained without corn and that hens will 

 lay well without it, the reason for this I believe to be the 

 use of the non-laxative 'bran low in protein. You may add 

 more beef-scrap to the ration, get a few more eggs, but you 

 will not get the results you would if you used middlings 

 instead of corn. You will find most brans run high in protein, 

 and when using such bran you will find hens want corn and 

 lots of it is absolutely desirable as far as my experience has 

 taken me. 



One thing I am positive of: That with some kinds of bran 

 and wheat corn is not necessary and results can be obtained 

 without it, but with other kinds — and they are in the great 

 majority — corn is actually one of the best poultry food 

 there is. 



I next accepted the management of another large poultry 

 farm where I had a better chance to continue my experi- 

 ments. I had no one to bother me, as I had at other places 

 where people thought I knew nothing because I experimented 

 with a few hens. (I lost more than one place on that 

 account). At this place I made a success of a poultry farm 

 under the worst possible conditions. It was the worst pos- 

 sible location for poultry farming, which was just what I 

 needed to show me not only what I wanted to know about 

 feeding, 'but also about roup. 



In one poultry house I had about 1,000 hens and I had 

 for experimental purposes 100 hens shut up in pens of five 

 hens each. I tried the same experiments I made at the place 



