Show nov TO GET EGGS IIVT WIKTER To get eggs in winter it is necessary to see the hens are well supplied with the variety of animal and vegetable food that they have in summer as the change of season affords Fortunately a farmer located in any thrifty community is not shut up to any narrow gauge of eggproducing food even In winter The farm will produce almost everything the flock needs In summer hens with a good range will produce eggs abundantly with a variety of grain plenty oC grass and such insects as they procure for themselves Ordinarily the farm yields two or three varieties of grain or If It Is not in a grain district it may exchange ex-change Its speciality for the grains that are needed The whole list of grains is wholesome whole-some diet for fowls and whatever grain Is made the staple they will do better on a variety Indian corn is probably the cheapest for the main supply given whole or In meal cooked and mixed with potatoes or turnips and given about as warm as the fowls will take it but confined chiefly to this grain they will get too fat to lay A good substitute for green grass Is lucerne or clover cut and dried for the purpose or if these be lacking any good hay This should be run through a hay cutter and made fine It Tvlll be eaten quite clean given In a clean trough Another excellent substitute sub-stitute ia rana cabbage raised and < j i 11 sr J > 1 stored for the purpose = This Is grown 150 easily and eaten so greedily by fowls that we wonder it is not more generally ral edIt ed-It can be readily stored in shallow trenches near the hen house from November to May and is reliable supply sup-ply of green succulent food which the hens never seem to tire of Even the stumps are available if chopped up fine The trenches should be covered with straw or any refuse matter two feet deep c Mangel wurzel and sugar beets are also good feed and If kept where they will not freeze they may be given whole but it is better economy to cut them up with a root slicer Any of the roots ordinarily fed to pigs or neat stock will be relished by the hens and help to fill the egg basket The most difficult part of the enterprise enter-prise will be the providing of animal food to take the place of insects that warm in the spring and summer The farmers who follow winter butter making have an abundant supply in heir skim and butter milk This is best given In the warm state mixed with Indian meal which supplies the place of the butter which has been extracted ex-tracted from the milk It makes avery a-very complete food Itself If the milk is not available we look text for a steady supply to the wastes I of the village markets and to chandlers chand-lers greaves from the village or city I butchers Scraps of fresh meat and bones can be had from the butchers and offal from the fish markets at cheap rates which is good food for laying hens but the quantity Is quite limited There are many other sources of animal food in different localities which will supply this part of the raw material for fresh eggs Lime in some form must be had for the shells Oysters Oys-ters long and round clams scollops and mussels are widely distributed by the fish markets and furnish lime in Its cheapest form WJth strict attention atten-tion to these particulars any wIde awake man or woman can have lots of eggs in winter |