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I  am  thinking  of  hatching  my  own 
chicks  this  year,  but  I  have  only  a  very 
few  old  hens.  Would  it  be  advisable  to 
set  my  pullet  eggs?  The  pullets  have 
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The  objections  to  using  pullet  eggs  for 
hatching  are  that  they  are  not  as  large 
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they  are  necessarily  laid  by  birds  that 
have  not  demonstrated  their  ability  to 
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vigorous  pullets  produce  good,  strong 
chicks,  however,  and  the  objections  are 
not  sufficiently  serious  to  make  it  neces¬ 
sary  to  discard  them  as  breeders  if  old 
hens  are  not  available.  If  your  pullets 
have  been  laying  heavily  all  Winter, 
under  forcing  methods  for  egg  production, 
they  will  not  be  in  as  good  condition  for 
breeders  this  Spring  as  they  should  be, 
but  neither  would  hens  under  the  same 
circumstances.  If,  however,  they  have 
laid  moderately  and  are  in  good  flesh  and 
vigor,  I  think  that  you  will  be  justified 
in  using  them  this  season,  and  will  be 
satisfied  with  the  results.  M.  B.  D. 
Feeding  for  Eggs 
We  have  100  hens  and  102  pullets  in 
separate  pens.  We  are  feeding  24  lbs.,  or 
possibly  a  little  more,  of  scratch  grain, 
equal  parts,  by  measure,  of  oats  and 
cracked  corn,  with  dry  mash  always  be¬ 
fore  them.  They  eat  about  25  lbs.  of 
mash  a  day,  composed  of  the  following: 
100  lbs.  bran,  50  lbs.  cornmeal,  50  lbs. 
gluten,  50  lbs.  ground  oats,  75  lbs.  beef 
scrap,  50  lbs.  white  middlings,  25  lbs. 
Alfalfa.  13  lbs.  oilmeal,  10  lbs.  fine  char¬ 
coal,  1%  lbs.  salt.  We  have  been  getting 
not  quite  a  25  per  cent  lay.  Is  there  too 
much  protein  in  this  dry  mash?  Do  you 
think  we  would  get  better  results  by  using 
the  formula  you  give  of  equal  parts  corn- 
meal,  ground  oats,  wheat  bran,  middlings 
and  beef  scrap?  Do  you  think  whole  corn 
is  better  than  cracked  corn  for  laying 
hens,  especially  for  night  feed?  F.  J.  B. 
Hammond,  N.  Y. 
While  the  mash  you  describe  is  slightly 
higher  in  protein  than  the  “Cornell” 
formula  mentioned,  there  is  no  reason  to 
think  that  the  change  to  the  latter  wrould 
increase  your  egg  production.  An  excess 
of  protein  in  a  ration,  if  not  too  great, 
is  chiefly  reprehensible  because  of  its  un¬ 
necessary  cost.  While  carbohydrates 
cannot  take  the  place  of  protein  in  an 
animal’s  ration,  proteins  can  replace  car¬ 
bohydrates  in  a  measure,  but  it  is  un¬ 
economical  to  feed  high-priced  feeds  when 
lower-priced  ones  are  as  good  or  better, 
and  high  protein  foods  are  the  high-priced 
foods. 
Cracked  corn  is  preferred  by  poultry- 
men  to  whole  corn,  probably  chiefly  be¬ 
cause  it  is  more  easily  digested,  but  there 
is  practically  no  difference  in  the  food 
value.  Because  it  takes  longer  for  whole 
corn  to  pass  through  the  digestive  organs 
of  a  fowl  than  it  does  cracked  corn,  the 
former  may  be  best  for  the  night  feeding 
on  Winter  nights.  It  will  probably  shorten 
slightly  the  period  of  empty  stomachs  be¬ 
fore  breakfast.  ir.  B.  D. 
Feeding  Broilers 
Will  you  give  me  some  advice  as  to 
what  is  the  best  food  for  chickens?  I 
would  like  to  raise  about  20f>  this  year 
and  sell  them  for  broilers.  1  would  ap¬ 
preciate  information  as  to  what  to  feed 
baby  chicks  from  the  time  they  are 
hatched  until  they  are  about  four  or  five 
months  old.  j.  h. 
Peekskill,  N.  Y. 
The  best  foods  for  young  chicks  are 
finely  cracked  corn,  cracked  wheat,  rolled 
oats,  pinhead  oats,  wheat  bran,  wheat 
middlings,  cornmeal,  ground  oats  and  milk 
in  some  form.  In  addition,  they  need  ten¬ 
der  green  food  of  some  kind,  as  soon  as 
it  is  available,  and  some  fine  chick  grit. 
There  are  no  rules  which  must  be  fol¬ 
lowed  in  the  matter  of  feeding,  so  far  as 
particular  combinations  go,  but  experi¬ 
enced  chick  raisers  have  learned  that 
there  are  general  principles  which,  if 
given  attention,  conduce  to  thrift  and  re¬ 
duce  mortality.  One  of  these  is  that 
young  chicks  should  have  skim-milk, 
whole  milk,  or  buttermilk  as  soon  as 
hatched  and  for  as  long  a  time  as  pos¬ 
sible.  Another  is  that  hard  cracked 
grains,  cracked  finely  enough  to  be  eaten 
by  baby  chicks,  are  less  likely  to  induce 
bowel  troubles  than  are  ground  mashes. 
Another  is  that  dry  ground  grains,  or 
mashes,  are  more  wholesome  than  those 
wet  up  before  feeding,  being  also  less 
likely  to  induce  bowel  disorders.  If  you 
have  had  no  experience  in  raising  young 
chicks,  I  would  suggest  that  you  send  to 
the  State  College  of  Agriculture  at  Ithaca, 
N.  Y.,  and  ask  for  their  bulletin  upon 
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