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Show FRESH-AIR HOUSES FOR EGGS Excellent Results Secured by Leaving Screen Door Open Wheat Straw Used for Litter. Some years ago, while trying to make poultry pay on a small 6cale, I tried the open-air house. By making a screen door at one end and leaving this open day and night I secured twice as many eggs as in my other houses not so provided, says a writer In an exchange. Now that I am keeping keep-ing fowls on a lower scale I always use some kind of fresh air house with good results. Wheat straw is spread in the chicken house to the depth of six inches. In this the feed is scattered, scat-tered, oats, wheat, barlev Borghum seed, etc., for morning and noon feeds. The evening meal consists of a mash of boiled potatoes thickened with tran, beef meal, a little ground oats and cornmeal slightly salted. After the fowls have eaten all they want 1 feed ear corn for a finish. Beef scrap, charcoal, grit and oyster shell are constantly con-stantly before them. The 6traw is cleaned out every day and replaced with fresh the next morning. If the weather is bad and the fowls have to stay in doors, I replace twice a day. 3 have no trouble in getting eggs in winter from bred-to-iay white leghorn and white Wyandotte fowls. Both varieties va-rieties are good. |