Care of Mature Fowls. 
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Ration No. 1. 
Mash. 
2 pounds com meal or barley meal. 
1 pound bran. 
1 pound middlings. 
1 pound meat or fish scrap. 
Scratch mixture. 
2 pounds cracked corn. 
1 pound oats. 
1 pound wheat or barley. 
Ration No. 2. 
3 pounds corn meal 
1 pound meat scrap 
Ration No. 3. 
2 pounds cracked corn. 
1 pound oats. 
3 pounds corn meal . 
1 pound bran. 
1 pound middlings, 
i pound meat scrap. 
Feed with table scraps or cooked 
2 pounds cracked corn. 
1 pound wheat. 
1 pound oats. 
vegetables. 
Ration No. 3 is of especial value to club members who have a 
considerable quantity of waste products from the kitchen, tables, 
Fig. 2. — Feeds used to make a balanced egg-laying ration: (1) wheat, (2) cracked corn, (3) oats, which 
make up the scratch feed; (4) corn meal, (5) meat scrap, (6) middlings, (7) bran, which make the mash, 
(8) grit, (9) charcoal, (10) oyster shell and water. These last four materials should be kept before the 
hens constantly. 
or garden. If skim milk or buttermilk is available this mash can be 
mixed with milk and the meat scrap omitted. 
HOW TO FEED. 
The scratch mixture should be fed twice daily, preferably in litter 
from 3 to 5 inches deep on the floor of the henhouse. Feed about 
one-third of the mixture in the morning and two-thirds in the after- 
noon. In the morning give only what the fowls will eat up within 
half an hour, and at night enough to satisfy them fully. 
Feed a mash either as a dry or moist feed in addition to the scratch 
grains. The dry mash is the more common method. It should be 
