82 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



conditions if it is corn or wheat she needs and she is given 

 all she wants of these grains, the craving will stop and she 

 will eat no more dirt. 



You must be very careful in feeding new corn, as new corn 

 when ground spoils very quickly. 



In experimenting you must use hens that know the value 

 of corn as well as wheat. If they do not, you must give them 

 time to learn ori you will not learn anything from them. I 

 have had some hens in flocks go for two months without 

 eating corn, as they did not know what it was. But as soon 

 as they did know they would fight for it. 



Be sure always to keep grit of the proper size, shells, 

 granulated bone-meal and charcoal in boxes. The hens prefer 

 the coarse granulated charcoal. 



Use corn-meal ground very fine and from good whole yel- 

 low corn. The beef-scrap should be the best and ground 

 very fine. Use Russian Red wheat and good whole yellow 

 corn. Mix these two grains together carefully and use them 

 for almost all the grain feeds (equal parts of wheat and whole 

 yellow corn) when limiting the grain. 



The cracked corn is probably better, as all the hens get an 

 equal share, but if care is used in scattering the corn, the 10c 

 per hundred that the mills charge for cracking it can be 

 saved. 



At some places poultrymen prefer the Turkey Red wheat, 

 as it contains more protein, and they pay a larger price for it. 

 They prefer the heavy brans that contain a large amount of 

 flour, but I have had very good results with Russian Red 

 wheat. 



In feeding you have different climates to be taken into 

 consideration, different waters, different soils, a very great 

 difference in the conditions of flocks — all of which things have 

 more or less effect on the feeding. 



