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‘The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 7, 1920 
The Henyard 
Winter Greens for Hens tilation. The air within the poultry 
,, ... ' , ,, , ,, house becomes saturated with moisture, 
I can give the chickens all the lettuce au( j w hen cold enough outside, it freezes 
leaves, etc^ they will eat. Is it safe to upon t jj e W alls in the form of frost. The 
do this? What dry mash shall I feed m 1 
combination with the greens? They get 
all the scratch grains they will clean up 
twice a day—white grit, shells and char¬ 
coal. Many of my friends tell me it is 
not safe to feed much greens in the Win¬ 
ter. C. J. K. 
Your chickens are fortunate if they can 
have all the lettuce and similar green stuff 
that they want in the Winter. Overfeed¬ 
ing upon cabbage and mangels is unde¬ 
sirable, but I hardly think that harm can 
be dpne with an unlimited amount of 
such succulent delicacies as lettuce. A 
good dry mash may be made from equal 
parts by weight of corn meal, wheat bran, 
wheat middlings, ground oats, gluten feed 
and beef scrap; this to be fed in connec¬ 
tion with mixed whole grains in the litter. 
M. B. D. 
a closed window is of no more value as 
a ventilator than a wooden wall, and a 
muslin curtain is scarcely more efficient. 
If you will replace the muslin screen in 
each pen with wire poultry netting, you 
will note a quick improvement in the con¬ 
dition of the pens. If you don’t, take 
out another window. An open-front 
poultry house is not open front unless the 
front is open. Unless you need such 
Damp Henhouse 
I have two henhouses, 30x10 and 50x16 
ft., divided off in 10x10 pens. Both are 
open-front with windows right under 
eaves of roof; 30-ft. house lias nine -win¬ 
dows, which take up the front of the 
house, and the 50-ft. lias 15 windows. _ I 
close these windows, with the exception 
of one in each pen, in which I have a 
muslin screen. The houses are well 
built, but I have trouble with frost in 
the morning; seems there is more frost 
inside the coops than outside, which 
thaws out during the day and causes 
dampness. The 30-ft. house has a dirt 
floor, which seems to be dry, and the 50- 
ft. house has wood floor. The frost is 
practically the same in each. The water 
from the frost drips down on the floor 
and in the litter, which makes it very dis¬ 
agreeable. I house 40 hens in each pen. 
Could you give me any advice on the mat¬ 
ter? ‘ h. c. K. 
New York. 
This “frost” that you notice on cold 
mornings is an indication of lack of ven- 
This White Leghorn laid 288 eggs in one year,at the T lueland Contest. She 
was bird No. 1 in the yen entered hg Hochn Farm—the full yen of 10 laying 
2288 eggs 
remedy is to change the air within the 
building sufficiently frequently to keep its 
moisture content at least as low as that 
of the out of doors. You certainly have 
windows enough in your buildings, but 
Small pens, except for special breeding 
purposes, are rather out of date for a 
“modern poultry house.” And. finally, 
don’t be afraid of cold, dry air in your 
buildings. If dry. the air cau hardly be 
too cold for the fowls, and the only way 
to keep it dry is to allow as free inter¬ 
change as possible without direct, drafts 
upon the occupants. m. B. d. 
- 
Vineland Poultry Ration 
Can you give me the ration which is 
being fed the- hens at Vineland. N. J.? 
How much scratch feed per hen, or per 
dozen hens? How many times a day is 
this fed, and what are the proportions of 
different ingredients for the dry mash? 
The only grain we have is corn; every¬ 
thing else will have to be bought. We 
wish to feed as economically as possible, 
but not at the expense of egg production. 
Will Beds be inclined to eat too much of 
the dry mash if it is kept open before 
them all the time? We have been very 
much interested in what the Beds have 
done at the contest at Vineland. 
Ohio. MRS. A M. P. 
At the Vineland egg-faying contest the 
birds are fed a dry mash composed of 
equal parts, by weight, of wheat bran, 
wheat middlings, cornmeal, ground oats 
and beef scrap. This is kept before them 
all the time in open feeders. The scratch 
grains are mixed equal parts, by weight, 
of wheat, oats and cracked corn, in Sum¬ 
mer, and double the quantity of cracked 
corn in Winter. This scratch feed is fed 
very lightly in the morning and at 11 
a. m. in litter, with a good, full feed, at 
night. Grit, oyster shells and charcoal 
are kept before the birds in separate hop¬ 
pers. This makes a simple, economical 
ration which will certainly produce good 
results when fed to good stock. This dry 
mash is kept before the Reds as well as 
all other heavy and light breeds at the 
Vineland contest without creating an 
over-fat condition of the stock, c. 8. G. 
small pens to separate breeding flocks, I 
believe that you will find both your build¬ 
ings more satisfactory if the interior par¬ 
titions are removed and the fowls per¬ 
mitted to have entire range of tin* floors. 
“Oh,” I kuowed I would get it,” said 
the man who had been fined for selling col¬ 
ored oleo, “and I think I cau stand it. 
But it does seem hard to have been fined 
by a magistrate with dyed whiskers.”— 
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