80 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



Of the one thousand pullets I had in the oak grove, not 

 one of them had bowel-trouble. They had no medicine of 

 any kind and they were confined in a very small space and 

 had no food but what I gave them. When they were pullets 



they were fed on the S Method, except that they had a 



straight wheat ration for grain, and at night they were fed 

 all the wheat they could eat. The B., B. & B. used contained 

 one-half bone meal. 



In making up rations measure the parts carefully, and these 

 rations are mixed to measure, not weighed. 



The percentage of beef-scrap in these rations is about right 

 if S quarts of grain a day is fed to 100 hens, but as this may 

 not be the better method and more grain is fed the beef- 

 scrap should be increased. The grain should be thrown on 

 top of the litter. Shavings from 12 to 18 inches deep is 

 very good. 



Feed the grain about 8 A. M. and 4 P. M. if feeding 5 quarts 

 to 100 hens. 



Use alfalfa or clover, etc., for green feed if possible. 



When hens and chicks are suffering from white-diarrhoea, 

 etc., I believe best results will be obtained by leaving out the 

 green feed, for a while at least. 



In running some of these experiments you may not get 

 exactly the same results as I have described: You may have 

 conditions that I have not had. Be very careful in your 

 feeding and in changing the feed. You may think that a 

 little change will not have any effect on the hen, but it does; 

 a change however small has its effect. That is why so many 

 people fail; they do not see these "little things," which are 

 the most important of all. They stay in the same old rut 

 as long as they are in the poultry business. We can all see 

 the big things, but very few of us have the patience to hunt 

 out the small ones, because they are very hard to find. 



