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F EEDING.—Probably the most difficult problem WATCH TIIE FLOCK.—By r 
connected with poultry kept for heavy egg pro- schedule above you will find that 
duction is that of feeding. Until one has a liberal grain is allowed each 100 birds for 
knowledge of this subject, gleaned both from books of the yea/. This covers the period 
and actual experience, consistent production and and the period when a young bir 
uniform profits are not always to be expected. Con- more to get its growth. Now this is 
ditions may arise over night to check even the finest rule to follow, so if your lords appa 
performance of the flock, and then, if the feeder is or less, change it. Watch the flock 
not equal to the cireu in stances, losses are bound to feeding to suit tiie appetite of the b 
follow. Of course feeding will not do all, hut in rule can apply to all cases. The ac 
most eases it is responsible for the condition of the considered with reference to its poi 
birds. Where feed is properly used, other details only unerring guide a feeder can ha 
being attended to, birds rarely fail to produce and a keen edge to the appetite of your 
are invariably healthy. This is an age of scientific the early part, of the day. If 
feeding. Any man who hopes to get good results iu the litter at noon it is a 
from ms live stock these days must study feeds and that too much is being fed. On 
learn to balance rations. Feeding hens to get. every if the birds are ravenously hung 
possMde egg out of them is really as delicate a task heavily from morning till night 
as a man could wish. Most people to 
whom poultry is a new thing or a sidp 
issue will do well to adopt a good i 
standard ration, one made up by some¬ 
one who understands the subject thor- 
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;e ro tne snouid nave all the fine dirt they care to eat 
quarts of Oyster shell should be fed in such a manner as to 
aonths out be readily accessible at all times. Charcoal is the 
d weather best medicine you can give a flock of hens without 
irally eats fear of an overdose. I seldom use any other medi- 
i inflexible cine. To sweeten the digestive tract and keep the 
need more bowels healthy charcoal has no equal. Keep it be- 
rljnst your fore them at all times. A little salt is necessary. 
So written and should he mixed in the mash at the rate of y 2 
the flock, lb. of salt to 100 lbs. of feed. Water should be 
uee, is the provided at all times, and it should be fresh and 
im to keep of a pleasing temperature. In Summer the fresh 
hroughout water problem is a big item, and should be seriously 
is found reckoned with. In Winter it is well to have the 
indication water warmed. Remember it costs feed money and 
her hand, checks the egg yield slightly to have the hens warm 
ing mash their own wafer. Any extra comfort you give your 
the egg birds is usually paid for in added production 
GREEN STUFF.—Here is where the 
initiate to the confinement methods 
ponders. Here is part of the price the 
free range plant pays. Contrary to all 
iM iiiii. r ,i belief, perhaps, liens will do well with 
very little green stuff. In a pinch 
Epsom salts or boiled oats used with 
reasonable caution will bring just as 
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replace the loss. Anything from corn 
silage to sprouted oats will do the 
trick. Do not feed too liberally, how¬ 
ever. of any succulent food if you wish 
to maintain a high egg yield. Breed¬ 
ing hens should have lots of green 
grass to roam over, but fields devoted 
to laying stock are quite unprofitable 
without another crop is grown con¬ 
jointly with market eggs. 
FREE RANGE.—This brings us to 
yards and such matters as they apply 
to confined layers. If you have room 
to allow your laying birds freedom, 
and really insist upon doing so, by all 
means choose the Spring months up 
until July. Then when the birds are 
closed in again, and fed the wet mash, 
production will come up with leaps and 
bounds. After this period of stimu¬ 
lated laying, when the birds are losing 
their feathers, turn them out again for 
all Fall and give them all the grain 
they will eat. This method works well 
and no doubt brings as many eggs as 
the total confinement, method. Where 
the land available is limited, however, 
the latter method is far ahead of let¬ 
ting the layers run. In this case either 
keep the birds right in the house all 
Summer until production has dwindled 
to a mere nothing, or limit them to 
very small well-shaded yards that are 
kept scrupulously clean. I prefer to 
have these yards available so the hens 
can wallow and keep cool out of doors. 
By flits method it is possible to keep 
1,000 hens on an acre of ground, and 
if good judgment is used, and the 
houses are kept clean, they will he highly productive 
and will not get sick. There is no reason in the 
world why two-story houses would not work, pro¬ 
vided they were well taken care of and the birds 
were not too closely crowded. Iu decidinsr between 
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