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most watchful as to the exercise the bird is forced to 

 take for its grain ration, and to keep the Utter deep. 

 Right in this connection we may say, a deep litter does 

 not necessarily mean one that is so broken up and 

 packed together that the grain cannot readily sift 

 through it. The litter straw should be constantly 

 added to so as to offer a surface that the grain will 

 readily sift through. 



For the past years, in feeding the layers. The 

 Corning Egg Farm Mash was prepared on Sundays 

 and fed exactly as on any other day of the week. 

 With the increase of the work on the Farm it has 

 been a study to lighten Sunday labor as much as 

 possible. 



On investigating the litter around the Mash Boxes 

 there will always be found a certain amount of Mash 

 that has been scratched out of the troughs, and to 

 a certain extent neglected. The experiment was 

 therefore made of omitting the Mash on Sunday, 

 and at once Biddy became extremely energetic in her 

 efforts to extract from the litter every particle of Mash 

 which she had wasted through the week. It is quite 

 possible that by continuing the Mash ration on Sun- 

 day a trifle higher egg average might be maintained 

 throughout the week. When the cost of feeding is 

 figured in, however, it is found that there is a real 

 saving in discontinuing the Mash for one day. The 

 plan has now been in operation for over eight months, 

 and there is no reason, so far as can be seen, why the 



