EGG PRODUCTION 
which is conducive to fertility and good 
health and strength. We keep before 
them all the time a dry mash composed of 
sixty per cent. wheat bran, thirty per cent. 
shorts and ten per cent. cottonseed meal. 
In addition to this, they have access at all 
times to a bin of Kaffir-corn; they also get 
a good ration of sour milk every day. 
When the sour milk is not available, which 
sometimes happens, then we add ten per 
cent. meat scrap to their dry mash. Where 
cottonseed meal can not be had, linseed 
meal will be found to be just as good, if 
not better. 
This, together with what they pick up 
on their range and what green food we 
give them and a little refuse from the 
kitchen, constitutes their rations. On these 
rations they produce eggs at a good profit. 
Where corn is cheaper, it could take 
the place of Kafir in the rations with just 
as good results. The chemical composi- 
tion of corn and Kafir is so nearly alike 
that where one is not available, the other 
can take its place in the rations without 
any perceptible difference in the results. 
With the larger breeds of poultry it 
would, perhaps, be best not to keep corn 
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