SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
or Kafir before them all of the time, lest 
they get too fat for profitable egg pro- 
duction, but give them what they will 
clean up just before roosting-time. The 
dry mash should be kept before them all 
of the time, also the sour milk, if you 
have it. As with the baby chicks, plenty 
of grit, ground oyster-shells, and clean, 
fresh water should be kept before them 
all of the time. 
Remember that the oyster-shells can 
never take the place of grit in the rations, 
but are used in connection with it to sup- 
ply the fowls with lime, from which the 
egg-shell is made. Hens will not lay well 
unless their rations contain plenty of lime, 
in some form, from which to make egg- 
shells. All of the feeding appliances 
should be kept nice and clean. 
Other rations than the ones described 
can be made up from the different grains 
usually found on the farm, with just as 
good results; wheat, oats and corn, equal 
parts of each by weight, mixed together, 
make splendid grain rations for laying 
hens. 
When fowls have plenty of sour milk, 
it, together with the cottonseed meal used 
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