Show uteri CARING FOR LAYING PULLETS dry comfortable Comfor tabla houses should bo be provided and an abundance of green Is necessary changes in management of poultry ann cnn not bo be made during the course of the breeding and hatching season without seriously interfering with the results any now new methods of 0 management feeding etc which ono one wishes to use must be inaugurated at thebe the beginning of the season and adhered to throughout the bringing of the chickens in from tho the range upon which they have grown from little chicks into the laying home Is apt to be a very violent and abrupt transition an authority 19 green food growers upon tho the raising of poultry profitably profitably has the following to say on the subject it has seemed in studying the birds in the fall of the year that the change from the range to the laying house wan an important one in the life of the bird and that the results during the subsequent winter with reference to egg production depended much upon the way this dis transition was made it seemed advisable both on general grounds and ana from observation of the birds themselves to make this change as an gradual as possible with this idea in mind the pullets have been brought int into 0 the houses from the range much earlier during the past few years than was the custom before and the results have been excellent when the pullets are first brought in it is not advisable to shut theta them up entirely in thi houses at once on the contrary our work la Is planned in such a way that there to la always a freshly seeded yard full ot ol green grass for the birds to run in after they are brought into the house until cold weather sets in the fowls tire are brought from free range into a condition of restricted range but with better pasturage on the restricted range chanon than on the tha free fred range TH yards are freshly seeded and have not no been trampled down or burned ot 01 dried out by the sun as aa is the grass on the open range from which thi th birds are taken in this way the attempt temptis Js made to have the transition from the range conditions to house conditions as gradual as possible after abo about ut two months of restricted range the birds are finally shut up in a curtain front house for the winter the teed feed of all adult birds whether pullets or not consists of two essential parts W a the whole or cracked grains scattered in the litter and b bi the mixture of dry ground grains gen brally known as a d dry y mash in adal tion to the grains aad and dry mash ter shell dry cracked bone grit and charcoal are kept in slatted troughs and are accessible at all times plenty of clean water Is furnished about five pounds of clover hay cut into one halt half inch lengths Is fed dry dally daily to each birds barda in winter W all 2 A empty flat B oats started tc sprout C oats well sprouted when the wheat oats and cracked corn are given tb tha birds are always ready and anxious for them and they them scratch in the litter for or the last kernel before golrig going to the trough where an abundance q of feed Is in store the hens bens like thel the broken and whole grains better than the mixture of tho the fine dry materials yet they help themselves to it a mouthful or two at a time whenever they seem to need it there to Is a general unanimity ol of opinion among poultry men that the fowls do best when some form ol of green or succulent food Is given them during the winter months in tact fact it Is an absolute necessity R best results are to be ba obtained the function of green food Is largely in the nature of a digestive stimulant green sprouted oats have been widely used in recent years as a green food for poultry and it Is a most ex excellent thing the oats sara fed wh when en they ara are from four to six inches in height and are fed at ai the rate of a piece of the matted oatland oats oat sand and attached green stalks about six by eight inches square tor for each cach birds per day |