Profits in poultry keeping solved; best authority on poultry raising; save labor, time and expense . - otherbreed, is because you can always buy all 3 on want forone dollar each, good lading stock. I ad\-ise changing your breeding stock at end ofsecond years la)ing, as two years is all a hen can berelied on to ])a3 a good profit and she should neverbe kept after this unless she is an extra good onewhich ^•ou would want to use as a fflUDf P RYJUJU L Typical Barred Rocks POULTRY RAISING 31 CHAPTER XII. Caring for a yarded plant. I am now going to tell you how to handle a yard-ed plant
Profits in poultry keeping solved; best authority on poultry raising; save labor, time and expense . - otherbreed, is because you can always buy all 3 on want forone dollar each, good lading stock. I ad\-ise changing your breeding stock at end ofsecond years la)ing, as two years is all a hen can berelied on to ])a3 a good profit and she should neverbe kept after this unless she is an extra good onewhich ^•ou would want to use as a fflUDf P RYJUJU L Typical Barred Rocks POULTRY RAISING 31 CHAPTER XII. Caring for a yarded plant. I am now going to tell you how to handle a yard-ed plant for the greatest possible profit, to those whoare so unfortunate as to own one, for such plants sel-dom pay unless it is used for breeding fancy have experimented for many months on yardedplants and I find that hens even over crowded insmall runs will produce more than double the eggsfed on the hopper system than they will fed the otherway. Just keep good quality wheat screenings andbeef scraps before them at all times and give a liberalfeeding of processed oats in the morning—all they willeat—and at i p. m. another feeding of processed oats—all they will eat. Remember you cannot over-feedthem on the processed oats, as they are light andquickly digested. At night give a light feeding ofcracked corn in litter in winter and you will be sur-prised at the results. Your fowls will always be inthe pink of condition and pract
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