The Philo system of progressive poultry keeping . lf to be for us a most excellent egg-producer. It serves as a green food all the year round, and thefowls are extremely fond of it. The way this feed is prepared isas follows: Take a quantity of oats or rye and soak them in water for 24hours. Then poiu: off the water and put the oats in an ordinarybox which has holes in the bottom to let the water drain off. Theoats are watered with a sprinkUng-pot night and morning, usingvery hot water—the hotter the better. As soon as the oats beginto sprout we spread them out in the box to the thickness of t
The Philo system of progressive poultry keeping . lf to be for us a most excellent egg-producer. It serves as a green food all the year round, and thefowls are extremely fond of it. The way this feed is prepared isas follows: Take a quantity of oats or rye and soak them in water for 24hours. Then poiu: off the water and put the oats in an ordinarybox which has holes in the bottom to let the water drain off. Theoats are watered with a sprinkUng-pot night and morning, usingvery hot water—the hotter the better. As soon as the oats beginto sprout we spread them out in the box to the thickness of two 52 inches, and still continue to water them night and morning. Inabout ten days or two weeks, depending upon how warm the roomis in which they are kept, they will be ready to feed. Whenin the proper condition to feed, the sod will be about three to fourinches thick, and the growth of green feed on top of this will beabout six or eight inches high. We feed a block about two orthree inches square of this to each pen of six fowls. We have been. v^atuting Pullets in the Colony Coop. using this feed throughout the winter and must say that our henshave never laid so well as this winter. We have averaged a fiftyper-cent egg production all winter long. This can be fed also toyoung chicks, although it should be fed at a time when the sproutsare an inch or two inches long. To keep the oats from growinginto stalk as it grows in the field it is necessary to turn it once or t S3 twice a day. This will make the sprout grow very long, and pre-vent the stalk from starting. A $ BUSINESS FROM 20 HENS. Under several headings in this book we give particulars aboutour work this season that has brought such large returns fromtwenty hens on a space thirty by forty feet in our city these figures are the results of our labor for several monthsless than a year, it has taken us five years to build up the strainsof fowls from which this record was made. With our presentknowledge of
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