. Dry land farming in the Southwest .. . Pork from Milo Fattened Hogs. and is as essential as feed. Many well fed hens do not lay because they do not have the water necessary in the formation of the egg. Lack of water is the chief cause of hens on the farm not laying in the winter. Water must be clean, pure and palatable and within reach of the hen whenever she wants it. She will not drink enough if the water is luke- warm in the summer or when it is mixed with ice in the winter. Grit.—Grit is the hen's teeth and it must be sharp. Often hens kept on stony places must be fed grit because the pi
. Dry land farming in the Southwest .. . Pork from Milo Fattened Hogs. and is as essential as feed. Many well fed hens do not lay because they do not have the water necessary in the formation of the egg. Lack of water is the chief cause of hens on the farm not laying in the winter. Water must be clean, pure and palatable and within reach of the hen whenever she wants it. She will not drink enough if the water is luke- warm in the summer or when it is mixed with ice in the winter. Grit.—Grit is the hen's teeth and it must be sharp. Often hens kept on stony places must be fed grit because the pieces of local stone are so rounding that they do not grind the feed well. Lime.—The egg shell is nearly pure carbonate of lime and lime is found in most of the tissues of the body. It is as absolutely necessary to the hen as air or feed. Crushed oyster shells The dry land farmer usually neglects the poul- try. It will pay him to make a business of tak- ing care of his chickens every day just the same as he makes a business of milking his cows. A hundred laying hens taken care of as recom- mended in this article will bring more money in a year than the farmer in the western third of Kansas gets from the average 50 acres of wheat. The farmer new to careful poultry work should start with twenty-five hens of a laying strain. In a year he should learn how to handle 100 hens profitably. At the beginning of the third year he should be able to handle 200 and get $2 a year from each above the cost of feed. Even with 100 hens, the addition of $200 to the cash income of the farm makes it worth while to spend a little time each day in good care. The hens will lay, no matter how severe the drought.
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