Show v aj i u WATCH AMOUNT OF FEED PULLETS EAT drop in mash and grain used used may bring slump A coming slump in egg laying of oily fifty hatched pullets can call be dete detected eted by watching tile amount of feed con warns tile the poultry department it cornell university A flock of leghorn pullets laying 50 per cent must eat from frimin 24 to 25 pounds of grain find and mash dully A decline of only two pounds of feed fruin from the necessary necess nry amount that should be eaten ealen liy by one hundred birds Is enough to enuse a failing off of P aaa g production the Tie I 1 leeders Te eders problem Is s to amne the flock eat life hie required amount bililly for various reasons some difficult to determine the birds may refuse to eat vi hat they should at the same time they become I 1 increasingly nerea singly lilac tive if the slump continues a partial mott lury result such conditions may start as the result of changes in feeds and feeding und and general in man inin in outbreaks of 0 di disease poor ioor ventilation 0 poor breeding lie eding but ably most frequently from violent changes in tile the weather it is best to try to check tile the slump before it has progressed progress eil far it if however the birds have dropped of ort T in production the next best thing Is to 10 bring thara out of it as I 1 y as possible in either case there are several practices that may prove helpful bt at this season increase the hours of artificial it II I 1 tiou if necessary so that lint tile birds have a 14 hour day feed cod liver oil mixing 1 pint in each pounds ot of dry mash or I 1 ounce dally in the scratch grain or in tile the wet mash for 00 50 liens feed a wet mash composed of tile tha regular dry mash moistened with skim milk or water preferably ju just s t be before fo r e tile the n night ight feeding of grain continue to keep k e ell the dry mash before the birds liquid aklin milk is advised eien though there Is powdered pondered milk in the mash the revised cornell mash formula calla for 50 pounds of dried skimmed or buttermilk in every pounds of the mixture |