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depended upon for the entire daily sup¬ 
ply, unless always in sufficient amount. 
I do not think that it is possible for a 
hen to get too fat to lay, but it is quite 
possible to feed a hen upon a fattening 
ration that will, induce fattening rather 
than laying. The hen may then get fat 
and not lay outside of the natural laying 
season. The remedy is a better balanced 
ration. M. B. d. 
Damp Henhouse 
I would like to have information as to 
what my hens have. We have about 140. 
They did well in laying until about a 
week ago. The liens look sick. Their 
combs look black and blue. One died to¬ 
day, and I am afraid more will die. Their 
droppings are very thin. Our chicken 
coop is very low, and is wet and damp. 
Do you think the wet coop has anything 
to do with it? The hens sometimes shiv¬ 
er and their wings hang. Their feed is 
oats in the morning. They have always 
dry mash, which contains ground oats, 
corn middlings and beef scrap; corn at 
night; two heads of cabbage hung in 
every morning. F. K. 
New York. 
A wet coop in the Winter is certainly 
quite capable of bringing about sickness 
in the flock, and there is little use in at¬ 
tempting any treatment until this condi¬ 
tion is remedied. Your trouble is prob¬ 
ably due to lack of ventilation. You can¬ 
not keep a poultry-house dry unless there 
is a very free interchange of air with that 
from outside, and the best way to bring 
this about is to have all sides of the 
building airtight, except the front, which 
should be well supplied with windows. 
These windows should be kept open in 
cold weather as well as in warm, the 
perches being situated in the rear of the 
building away from them. The only 
guide as to the amount of opening that 
is needed is the condition of the interior 
of the building. If it is damp, there 
should be more open space in the front 
wall of the poultry-house. 
I presume that, in your desire to keep 
your hens warm, you have kept the win¬ 
dows closed during the cold weather. This 
is fatal to the health of the fowls. It is 
not necessary that the interior of a poul¬ 
try-house should be warm ; it is necessary 
that it should be dry. Hens are provided 
with the best possible covering to protect 
them from cold, and will not suffer at all 
in a dry building in which the tempera¬ 
ture is as low as it is out of doors, un¬ 
less exposed to drafts. My advice is to 
open up your front windows until the 
building becomes dry; then supply it 
with dry litter, and do not close the win¬ 
dows again, except temporarily, to keep 
out some driving storm. M. B. o. 
Hens Stop Laying 
I have 100 White Leghorn pullets, 
hatched the middle of April; started to 
lay early in November and worked up to 
40 eggs per day and then commenced to 
go back to where I am only getting eight 
and nine a day. All look well and act nat¬ 
ural. I have lights in the evening until 
7 :30, plenty of grit and oyster shells. I 
have always mixed my own scratch grain 
till this Fall, when I was advised to use 
a well-known feed, mash and grain. I 
feed grain very regularly, and the mash 
hopper is open all day; plenty of fresh 
water; clean roosts, clean and dry straw 
for scratching. House is 22x18 ft., faces 
south; four large windows which drop 
in from the top, with a 10-in. opening 
near the roof, with netting over, which is 
open all the time. 1 feed three or four 
mangels each day, same as previous Win¬ 
ters. I was told perhaps the mangels are 
poisonous to the birds. Could that be 
so ? w. A. E. 
New York. 
No, mangels are not poisonous to 
fowls; on the contrary, they make an 
excellent addition to the ration of grain 
and mash. It is not posible to say why 
any given flock drops off in egg produc¬ 
tion without complete knowledge of their 
management, and perhaps not then. A 
common cause of such trouble in the 
Winter, however, is failure to maintain 
a balance between grain and mash food 
Avhen the high point of egg production is 
reached.. There is a tendency to overfeed 
upon grain and permit too little consump¬ 
tion of mash. This is encouraged by the 
practice of feeding mash in large hop¬ 
pers, always filled, so that the amount of 
mash eaten daily is not known. As 
much, or more, mash should be consumed 
by a flock in good production, and the 
grain ration is likely to be permitted to 
overbalanced the mash. m. b. d. 
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