HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 
1914 
271 
Feed the Laying Hen 
O NE of the best feeds consists of a 
mixture of silage, wheat bran and 
chops with turnips and scraps if these lat¬ 
ter are to be had. A peck of silage cut 
fine, three pounds of bran and three 
pounds of chops make a good morning 
feed for a hundred hens. Then later in 
the day, say in the afternoon, give them a 
good feed of whole grain, either wheat or 
corn, or kaffir corn. Most of the larger 
farms now have a silo, and also many of 
the smaller ones. The silage should be 
cut finer than for the stock, and this may 
be done each day as it is prepared. When 
mixed with the other feed it should have 
boiling water poured over it in sufficient 
quantity to make a stiff mash. 
Much of the poultry sold from the farm 
corresponds in a great degree to feeder 
cattle sold from the range. The corn- 
belt farmer fattens the cattle, the commer¬ 
cial feeding plant in the city fattens the 
poultry. No complicated system of forced 
feeding and secret rations is needed. Sep¬ 
arate sexes, shut up in small coops eight or 
ten to the coop, and fed all they will eat of 
a suitable ration. As the feeding period 
only lasts from one to three weeks, the 
extra profit derived, especially if sold di¬ 
rect to a hotel, is a large return for the 
feed and trouble. Here are a few rations 
used by the leading crate-fatteners which 
might be used by the farmer quite as profit¬ 
ably : / 
Ground oats. 2 
Shorts. 2 
Corn meal. 2 
Beef scrap. 1 
Mix to the consistency of pancake bat¬ 
ter with sour milk or skim milk, and feed 
all the birds can clean up in ten minutes 
twice daily. This ration has put 1 pound 
on 2U and 3-nound cockerels in two weeks 
when fed as stated above. 
Another ration especially adapted to 
broilers confined is to feed corn in the lit¬ 
ter at 7 A. M. and 3:30 P. M. At n 
o’clock give a mash consisting of: 
Beef scrap. 85 
Cracked corn. 130 
Corn meal.135 
Wheat bran. 40 
An excellent fattening mash is : 
Corn meal.100 
Oat meal.too 
Ground brickwheat.100 
Beef scrap. 30 
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