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Poor Laying 
I have a flock of about 40 hens. How 
much should be fed to them daily, how 
many times a day? What kind of feed 
should be used, and is wet rnash good for 
them twice a week? I am not getting 
any eggs at all. The birds are all well 
and healthy. l. s. 
Feed these hens daily all that they will 
eat. Give a light feeding of cracked corn, 
wheat, or a mixture of both, in the morn¬ 
ing, say from one to two quarts, and at 
night feed all that the fowls will eat be¬ 
fore going to roost. In addition to tbe 
whole and cracked grains, keep a mash 
(dry) before them all of the time. To 
make this mash, mix equal parts by 
weight of cornmeal, wheat bran, wheat 
middlings, ground oats and beef scrap. 
There is no occasion for feeding a moist 
mash twice a week if dry mash is always 
before the fowls, but if it is desired to 
stimulate laying as far as it is possible 
to do that, a light feeding of the mash 
moistened with skim-milk or water may 
be fed each day at noon. This in addi¬ 
tion to the dry mash. If your hens are 
in good health and properly cared for 
otherwise this method of feeding should 
certainly induce them to lay, but there 
are other factors than feeding to be con¬ 
sidered. _ Don't neglect proper quarters 
Doiit blame the breed ! 
-v correct the feed 
Before you can get eggs, every hen, whatever her breed, 
must have a perfectly nourished body, and in addition 
a large surplus of egg-making elements and in correct 
proportion. 
You can’t cheat Biddy with inferior feed. She must 
have egg-making mash before you get eggs. 
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and good care, and thus waste the food 
given. m. B. D. 
Cornell Dry Mash 
^What would you advise me to give my 
15 pullets as a dry mash? I am getting 
nine and 11 eggs per day. I am at pres¬ 
ent giving them dry mash which comes 
all prepared. I also give them cracked 
corn, oats, shells and sprouted oats, and 
a wet rnasli which consists of charcoal 
cornmeal, bran and meat scrap. Would 
you advise me to keep on using dry mash, 
or could you give me a better one? 
South Berwick, Me. f. n. 
I know of no better dry mash than the 
''Cornell” mash, frequently mentioned in 
these columns. That, consists of equal 
parts by weight of eornmeftl, wheat bran, 
wheat middlings, ground oats and beef 
scrap. Three pounds of salt are mixed 
with each 500 lbs. of the rnash. Gluten 
feed, as a sixth part, is added by many, 
and is used at the Storrs poultry station. 
If you have an ample supply of skim-milk 
for your pullets you can reduce the 
amount of beef scrap in the mash mater¬ 
ially. I see no reason for feeding another 
mash, moistened, in addition to this. If 
it is desired to feed a moist mash, the 
same mixture enu as well be used. Peed 
charcoal dry, and do not. make sudden 
changes iu the kind or quantity of the 
ration used; this is likely to induce 
molting and cheek egg laying. Select a 
good ration and stick to it. unless there 
are very good reasons for changing. 
M. B. D. 
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Ailing Fowls 
I have one Buff Plymouth Rock whose 
shanks are very scaly. I have two that 
are continually coughing. I also have 
two that have no symptoms of roup or 
pox. but whose tails hang low. and they 
are not lively. I would appreciate your 
advice for treatment of the above. 
Rockland Co.. N. Y. w. A. n. 
•Scaly legs may he treated by dipping 
the legs of the fowl into kerosene, taking 
care not to wet tbe feathered portions of 
the legs and so cause burning of the skin. 
Mild cases should respond to this treat¬ 
ment, and some oily preparation should 
be used upon the perches to prevent the 
infecting mite causing the trouble from 
going from one fowl to the other. 
Coughing fowls had better be removed 
from the flock until it is determined 
whether or not they have any communi¬ 
cable disease. The same precaution 
should be observed in the ease of sus¬ 
pected roup. A drop or two of kerosene 
occasionally administered by way of each 
nostril may help to clear Up A case of 
suspected roup or of coughing, but any 
evidently sick fowl should not be left 
with healthy ones, and few seriously sick 
fowls are worth very loug continued in¬ 
dividual treatment. M. B. D. 
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If Leghorn chicks nro hatched about 
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feeding 12 quarts grain daily with about 
3 lbs. ground green hone, with dry mash 
before them at all times, to 120 pullets. 
My mash is ready mixed, grain is same 
as Storrs. With egg yield of an average 
of 70 a day, am I forcing or not? 
Greenville, Pa. M. T, L. 
Molting is n more or less continuous 
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