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January 8, 1921 
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Market Your Grain 
in Egg Cases 
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Grain prices are low—egg prices are high. The great item 
of cost in egg production is feed—so the more cheap grain 
you turn into high-priced eggs, the bigger your profits. 
You have the feed and the hens. Now work this 
profitable combination to the limit. Give your birds 
a varied ration — feed it freely — get eggs NOW — 
beat the grain market—cash in on the high-level egg 
market. And you’ll be doubly sure of a big egg 
“harvest” by mixing 
Pratts Poultry Regulator 
with the feed. This great poultry tonic and conditioner 
quickly puts hens in laying condition and offsets the strain 
of heavy laying so they keep on shelling out the eggs. It 
supplies many needed things lacking in the winter feed — 
keeps the egg-making machinery working steadily and effec¬ 
tively. It enables you to “market your grain in egg cases,’' 
to your great advantage. 
Expert poultrymen who make a specialty of this hen 
business and study it carefully find Pratts Poultry Regulator 
a big help. That’s why they’re spending their money for it. 
You’ll find every dollar paid for Pratts Poultry Regulator 
giving big returns in increased egg production. 
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8F 
1 ltx To produce va- 
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^'i their diastase, 
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E xperimenting with egg# these days costs 
money. Hatching high priced eggs into higher 
priced chicks is profitable. Then 
ment with uncertain equipment? 
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THE HENYARD 
Concrete Poultry House 
I wish to build a concrete chicken house 
100x20 ft.. 6 ft. in back and 8 ft. high in 
front. How do you recommend concrete 
chicken house and the size? I have lots 
of small stones which I would like to use 
in mixing in concrete. What would be 
the proportion of cement, sand and stones? 
Union, N. J. f. p. 
I think that you will like a concrete 
poultry house of the dimensions aud size 
that you mention, but you will need to 
make ample provision for ventilation 
through front windows to keep the in¬ 
terior dry. Moisture from the inside air 
condenses so readily upon cold concrete 
walls as to make a building with exposed 
concrete seem much more damp than one 
of wood, or lined with wood. For this 
reason some do not like concrete con¬ 
struction in poultry buildings. You will 
not use small stones in making concrete, 
but they may be bedded in concrete walls 
to the extent of about one-fourth the 
amount of the concrete, to save the latter 
material. The exact proportions of the 
materials used in making your concrete 
will depend somewhat upon their quality. 
With ordinarily good, clean sand and 
good gravel or broken stone, one part of 
cement, two of sand and four of gravel 
or broken stone makes suitable concrete 
for this work. Even less concrete may 
often be used in the mixture, but it would 
not be safe to advise it without definite 
knowledge of the materials to be used. 
If you use concrete blocks, the makers 
of the block machines will give directions 
for the proper proportioning of the ingre¬ 
dients to be used. m. b. d. 
Feeding and Management 
- What is the best ration for Leghorn 
breeders? How much corn and scraps? 
How many cockerels to 150 hens, in a 
pen 30x20 ft.? What ointment to apply 
to cockerels’ combs so as not to freeze? 
Would you give the same ration to good 
mature pullets as breeders? How man¬ 
age with hens and pullets to occupy the 
laying house? The pullets should go in 
the house by October 1, which is occu¬ 
pied with hens all laying well. Should 
one plan to breed every other year, or 
what? What is a good tonic for molt? 
Pennsylvania. M. K. 
I know of no one best ration for breed¬ 
ers ; any well-balanced ration, containing 
a suitable amount of animal and of green 
and vegetable food is a good ration. Corn 
or wheat, or a mixture of both, may well 
make up about one-half of the whole 
grain ration, to be supplemented by such 
grains as whole oats, barley, buckwheat 
and, possibly, rye, if these can be ob¬ 
tained. Corn and wheat are the two lead¬ 
ing grains, though the addition of others 
lends variety, and variety is probably of 
some value. A good ground grain mash 
may be made from equal parts, by weight, 
of cornmeal, ground oats or gluten feed, 
wheat bran, wheat middlings aud beef 
scrap. Cabbages, mangels, sprouted oats 
or other green and vegetable stuff should 
be provided, and clover or Alfalfa hay is 
a splendid addition to both the diet and 
the litter. Beef scrap should form about 
one-fifth part of the mash. 
Four or five vigorous cockerels should 
be sufficient in a pen of 150 Leghorns, 
much depending upon the cockerels them¬ 
selves. Vaseline or other simple grease 
is used upon combs and wattles to lessen 
the danger of freezing, but they will not 
prevent it if the temperature goes too low. 
I know of no reason for giving maturing 
pullets a different ration from the hens in 
the breeding pen and laying, unless it is 
desired to hold the pullets back ; iu which 
case less beef scrap should be fed. 
If it is not desired to breed from the 
pullets aud they must occupy the same 
pen that the older hens do, selection of 
the larger eggs for setting will insure 
that those from the hens will at least pre¬ 
dominate. There is no harm in breeding 
from fully developed pullets, though older 
hens that have demonstrated good laying 
and staying powers and that lay larger 
eggs are superior to pullets as breeders. 
I have no faith in panaceas and little 
in tonics or regulators. A panacea is a 
remedy for the cure of all ills; only the 
crudest conception of the action of medi¬ 
cal agents could conceive of the possibil¬ 
ity of such a thing, and only credulity 
could accept it. As for tonics aud regu¬ 
lators, what are they to tone and regu¬ 
late? If there is any definite disorder of 
bodily function that a drug or other rem¬ 
edy will relieve, that remedy should be 
given for that purpose, and discontinued 
when its purpose is accomplished. To as¬ 
sume that there are substances that wil 
restore “tone” or healthy function to the 
various organs of the body and that can 
be combined in a mixture from which 
each organ will pick out the particular 
substance that it needs is to indulge a 
pleasant but wholly fallacious couception 
of remedial agencies. Such a mixture 
would indeed be a tonic and regulator, 
but, unfortunately, “there ain’t uo such 
animal.” Wholesome food and healthful 
surroundings are the only tonics needed 
by fowls. If, in spite of these, disease or 
milder disorder appears, it should be 
treated as its character requires, m. b. d. 
Prize birds are 
fed right from 
the start 
The development of good stock begins 
with the first feed they get. 
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mature more rapidly on it and develop 
big, healthy frames. 
What successful breeders say: 
Sebring; Ohio, Noo. 29, 1920 
The H-0 Company ; 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Gentlemen: 
For a number of years we, as many 
other poultry-men experienced the dis¬ 
appointments of heavy chick losses. 
We soon found that our losses were 
due largely to bowel-troubles caused 
by the use of chick feeds contain¬ 
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tested many different feeds in search 
of a satisfactory chick feed and were 
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FEED. Since our first test we have 
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raise chicks without H-0 STEAM- 
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(signed) Yours sincerely, 
R. E. Smoyer. 
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100,50,25and lOlbs. 
Insist that your 
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profits from live chicks. 
Write for free samples, prices and 
descriptive folder. 
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Feed Department, Buffalo, N. Y. 
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Baby Chicks, Cockerels 
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Leghorns, R. I. Reds 
B. P. Rocks 
From high laying, pure¬ 
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Box 100 
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