li AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
September, 1912 
Poultry, Pet am Live Stork 
Directory 
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stand in the box. Whatever plan is fol- 
lowed, the Fall work should include mak- 
ing arrangements of some kind for plenty 
of green stuff to be fed the hens during 
the long Winter months. Without this 
green ration, the hens will be likely to 
lay very few eggs. The hens ought to 
go into the Winter houses by the first of 
October, for the early-hatched pullets 
should begin laying eggs by that time. 
The houses should have been thoroughly 
cleaned, several inches of fresh sand 
placed on the floor, the walls, nests and 
perches sprayed with kerosene or some 
like prepared killer and any necessary 
repairs made. 
If laying hens are to be moved, a good 
plan is to feed them lightly for a day or 
two before the shift is made, and then to 
throw a liberal supply of grain in a deep 
litter on the floor of the new house. Be- 
ing hungry, the birds will be too much 
engrossed in searching for food to be 
fretted by the change in their environ- 
ment. 
Sometimes the pullets seem slow in be- 
ginning to lay in the Fall, in which case it 
is well to feed them a warm mash at 
noon three times a week, the mash con- 
sisting of equal parts of wheat, bran, 
middlings and ground oats, mixed 
equally by weight, with two pounds of 
beef scraps to every twenty-five pounds 
of this mixture, the whole being mixed 
only moist enough so that it will crumble 
in the hands. 
If eggs still fail to appear, try feeding 
them a little fresh meat, or better still, a 
small amount of green cut bone. The 
former can be secured of the butcher, of 
course, but the latter is more difficult to 
obtain unless one has a bone cutter. 
There are places in many of the larger 
cities, however, generally in the market- 
places, where this green bone may be 
purchased ready for use. 
Arrangements should be made for an 
abundance of litter to be spread on the 
floor of the poultry house throughout the 
Winter, adding more from time to time 
as it becomes trampled down hard, and 
replacing it with a fresh lot when it be- 
comes badly soiled. In most sections it 
is possible to obtain any quantity of 
leaves in the Fall, and while leaves are 
not as good as straw, they are naturally 
much cheaper. Shredded cornstalks make 
good litter and a certain amount is eaten 
by the hens. The importance of feeding 
the whole and cracked grain in a deep 
litter has been well established. Hens 
must have exercise if they are to produce 
eggs, and scratching for a living is the 
kind of exercise which nature evidently 
intended them to take. When they are 
obliged to scratch for their grain they 
eat only a little at a time, the natural 
way, instead of stuffing their crops in a 
few moments of hurried feeding, to mope 
around for several hours afterward. It 
seems to have been established, too, that 
hens eat more when the grain is buried 
in the litter. The uncertainty as to what 
they will bring to view adds zest to their 
search; and the active, heavy-feeding 
hen is usually the one which lays the 
most eggs. Several kinds of grain are 
needed, corn, wheat, oats and barley be- 
ing the staples. It seems remarkable that 
hens should have the sense of taste well 
developed, but that they have is easily 
believed when one observes that different 
hens pick out different grains as being, 
apparently, most to their liking. 
The Fall work includes getting rid of 
the surplus cockerels and what old hens 
