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If a mash is fed, give it in the evening. 
Feeding mash in the morning has a tend¬ 
ency toward making fowls lazy during the 
day. On the writer’s poultry farm, we 
feed few mashes. Their chief value lies 
in the fact that they permit the utiliza¬ 
tion of odds and ends and waste materials, 
such as table scraps, which could not other¬ 
wise be fed very handily. 
Aside from this it is better to let the 
fowls work for all the food they get, for 
in the winter they need to be kept busy 
and contented during the seemingly long 
days of. confinement, and they also need 
all the bodily exercise it is possible to give 
them indoors. Then they will not become 
overfat or fall into vicious habits, such 
as feather-pulling or egg-eating. There 
is no better way of accomplishing this 
desirable end than by scattering all their 
grain feed in a deep litter of straw, leaves 
or any other such comparatively loose ma¬ 
terial, making them scratch and hunt for 
all they get. This also helps to keep them 
warm on cold days. 
If possible, throw into each pen a few 
sheaves of unthreshed grain occasionally. 
The fowls will pick and dig in them for 
the grain they contain all day long, and 
still will not become overfed. When the 
night shows indications of unusual cold, 
put a panful of corn in the oven and al¬ 
low it to brown, and perhaps partly char. 
This has a good tonic effect in addition 
to helping keep the fowls warm during 
the cold night. A cropful of warm corn 
is always a comfortable thing for a hen 
to go to bed on when the mercury is down 
around the zero mark. 
Of course all grains should always be 
warmed before feeding in cold weather. 
This saves feed, and increases the health 
and productivity of the hens by adding to 
their comfort. The same is true of the 
drinking water; see that it isn’t frozen 
half of the time so that the fowls can’t 
get to it. Take around fresh warm water 
three times a day during the winter— 
morning, noon and evening. Don’t neg¬ 
lect it in the evening, thinking that the 
fowls are soon going to roost anyway; 
they always take a good drink just before 
retiring. R. B. Sando 
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