July, 1912 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
5 
Feeding the Small Flock. 
F EEDING the small poultry flock may 
be made a very simple matter. The- 
amateur has a distinct advantage over the 
professional poultryman in the fact that 
he has table scraps for his hens, for these 
scraps make an important addition to the 
regular rations without increasing the 
cost. Indeed, the bits of meat, bread and 
vegetables from the table of many fam¬ 
ilies will go a long way toward providing 
all the feed a small flock needs. 
Many amateurs get a larger percentage 
of eggs during the cold weather when 
eggs are sixty cents and more a dozen 
than the average professional poultry 
keeper, simply because they are able to 
give a few hens better care and closer at¬ 
tention than can be given a large flock. It 
is true, of course, that hundreds of am¬ 
ateurs get no eggs at all during the win¬ 
ter, or at the most, not enough to pay for 
what the hens eat; but that is due to lack 
of skill in management. And yet the care 
of a small flock is not a complicated mat¬ 
ter by any means. It is necessary, of 
course, to have pullets or year-old hens 
and to house them in light, dry, well-ven¬ 
tilated quarters in order to have them lay 
well. The rest is largely a matter of feed¬ 
ing. 
The very easiest plan is to feed from 
hoppers, using only dry rations, except 
the table scraps, which must be fed in a 
mash. Hoppers large enough to hold a 
week’s supply may be purchased cheaply, 
or may be made at home of soap boxes. A 
brief study of a ready-made hopper will 
show a handy man how to duplicate it at 
home. The one disadvantage of these 
hoppers is the fact that they expose the 
grain at night, when rats and mice eat it. 
There are many styles of hopper on the 
market, which have certain advantages 
over the conventional type. They are 
worth looking over. 
The feeding problem is still further 
simplified by filling the hoppers with com¬ 
mercial dry mashes, choosing the variety 
sold as a mash for laying hens. It con¬ 
sists of various ground grains, and the 
best grades are more evenly balanced than 
any mixture which the amateur might 
compound. Some kinds contain beef 
scraps and alfalfa meal. They are well 
enough, but to me it seems wiser to feed 
the meat and green rations apart from the 
grain. The hens are allowed to eat from 
these hoppers whenever they please. Us¬ 
ually they eat but little at a time, but come 
back often, which is quite the natural way 
for fowls to eat. 
The mash should be supplemented by 
whole or cracked grains, including wheat, 
corn, oats, barley and buckwheat. It is 
not necessary that all these grains should 
be given, but a variety is always desirable. 
Much will depend upon the cost of the 
different kinds, however. It would be ex¬ 
travagant to buy any kind which was par¬ 
ticularly high for the time being. Both 
corn and wheat should never be eliminated 
from the daily feeding, though. They are 
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