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plied with all the drinking water she will take, your 

 labor will go for naught, and the hen will not be able 

 to lay eggs. 



Her grain ration must be of the best, and it should 

 be fed in such a way that she is forced to work for it. 



Perfect Health or No Eggs 



If Biddy is to lay, she must be kept in perfect 

 health, and without exercise that is impossible. 



She must live in a house without draughts but in 

 which the air is always fresh by means of perfect 

 ventilation, and she must have sunshine. 



Her quarters must be kept clean and sweet, and a 

 good supply of coarse oyster shell, sharp grit, or 

 sifted, hard coal ashes, should be always accessible in 

 quantities. 



Abundant Animal Food 



She must have an abundance of animal food, 

 either in form of green cut bone, or beef scraps, 

 and this should be mixed as we feed it in The Corning 

 Egg Farm Mash, which is a mixture of different 

 meals in which the animal food is thoroughly dis- 

 tributed. Of grain, to one hundred hens, eight quarts 

 of a mixture of wheat, corn and oats, should be 

 given; in Summer, about two-thirds wheat and one- 

 third cracked corn, reducing the wheat to a third and 

 increasing the corn to about two-thirds in cold 

 weather, adding to this mixture at all times two 



