FLOCK MANAGEMENT FOR EGGS AND MEAT 375 
hens do best as layers. Many poultrymen claim that 
pullets are superior, and, therefore, the more profitable, 
but there is nothing decided on this subject. Many egg 
farmers get excellent egg yields from hens two to four 
years old—fully as good as from pul- 
lets. Because of this fact, it is evident 
there is much in the method of man- 
agement and in the breeding. For 
this reason a hen should not be sold 
so long as she lays well. A hen on 
the nest is worth two pullets in the 
field. ; 
15. Feeding the layers—In winter 
quarters and fed for eggs three special 
meals a day are desirable. For break- 
fast give a combination of several grains 
scattered deep in a loose litter. At noon give a mash, 
wet or dry, and with or without alfalfa and meat meal. 
For supper give grain in the scratching litter, feeding 
enough so that there will be some left for the fowls to 
begin on in the early morning when they come off the 
roosts. Layers of the egg type will consume about three 
ounces daily of the grain mixture, or about 18 pounds to 
each 100 fowls. Of , 
the noon mash about 
five quarts will be re- 
quired for each 100 
fowls. It will take 
from 15 to 20 minutes 
for that number to 
clean up this quantity. fo sy 
If meat scrap is not in- Hide, ‘Reed ie Hees 
cluded in the mash The hen is the means of changing raw food 
: material into a highly concentrated finished 
place in hoppers as a product. 
SPROUTING OaTs 
