60 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



I just left. I tried them over and over again. I would go 

 to the mill and get one kind of bran and then another kind — 

 also many different kinds of wheat. I was enabled to do this 

 because there were different kinds of bran and wheat coming 

 to this mill all the time. These experiments were kept up 

 for a year, and in that time the truth of my deductions regard- 

 ing the variations of grain were proved beyond the possibility 

 of a doubt. 



I would increase middlings and oats in the mash, and by 

 properly balancing it with beef-scrap I would get many more 

 eggs than when I fed only the bran, corn and wheat method. 

 The hen in one pen receiving one part of bran, one part of 

 corn-meal, one-half part of middlings, one-half part of ground 

 oats, and one-half part of beef-scrap laid very well, but in 

 a pen having the same feed except for a trifle more meat 

 the hens would be knocked down and would be unable to 

 get on their feet, like persons suffering from paralysis, and 

 would be afflicted in many different ways. 



