Show CARING FOR LAYING PULLETS dry comfortable houses should be provided and an abundance of green Is necessary changes in management of poultry can not be made during the course of the breeding and hatching season without seriously interfering with the results any new methods of management feeding etc which one wishes to use must be inaugurated at the be ginning of the season and adhered to throughout the bringing of the chickens in from the range upon which they have grown from little chicks into the lay ing home Is apt to be a very violent and abrupt transition an authority green food growers upon the raising of poultry 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 was an important one in the life 0 the bird and that the results during the subsequent winter with ret arence to egg production depended much upon the way this transition was made it seemed advisable both on general grounds and from observe alon of the birds themselves to make this change as gradual as possible with this idea in mind the pullets have been brought into the houses from the range much earlier during the past few years than was te cus torn before and the results have been excellent when the pullets are first brought in it Is not advisable to shut them up entirely in tha houses at once on the contrary our work la planned in such a way that there Is always a freshly seeded yard full ol 01 green grass tor the birds to run in after they are brought into the house until cold weather sets in the fowls are brought from tree range into a condition of restricted range but with better pasturage on the restricted range than on the tree range the yards are freshly seeded and have not been trampled down or burned or dried out by the sun as Is the grass on the open range from which birds are taken in this way the at tempt Is made to have the transition from the range conditions to bouse conditions as gradual as after about two months of restricted range the birds are finally shut up in a curtain front house tor the winter the feed of all adult birds whether pullets or not consists of two essen elal parts a the whole or cracked grains scattered in the litter and b the mixture of dry ground grains gen brally known as a dry mash in adal alon to the grains and dry mash ter shell dry cracked bone grit and charcoal are kept in slatted troughs and are accessible at all times pien ty of clean water Is furnished about five pounds of clover bay cul into one half inch lengths is fed dry dally to each birds in winter A empty flat B oat started te sprout C oats well sprouted when the wheat oats and cracked corn are given alf birds are always ready and anxious for them and they scratch in the litter tor the last kernel before going to the trough where an abundance of feed is in store the hens like the broken and whole grains better than the mixture of the fine dry materials yet they help them selves to it a mouthful or two at a time whenever they seem to need it there Is a general unanimity ol 01 opinion among poultry men that the fowls do best when some form 0 green or succulent food Is given them during the winter months in tact it is an absolute necessity it best results are to be 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 tor poultry and it Is a most excellent thing the oats are fed when they are from couro six inches in height and are fed at the rate of a piece of the matted oats and attached green stalks about six by eight inches square for each birds per day care of farm flocks better care of farm flocks and their products is the battle cry of those who have learned the financial bill ties of well kept hens the farm flock Is no longer a convenience it must show profit reducing profits the more poor layers and extra males there are in the flock the less profit there will bo |