Show CULLING THE POULTRY FLOCK lea less profit secured by keeping birds until cold weather than by selling early in fall when the first cold bights nights come and the chickens aro rounded up from the coop coops and trees and driven into the chicken boutta the farmer wake abet up to fo the fact that ho he has more chick ens than he thought ho he had and man many of them must go to market so it hap pens that along in late Novem november bez there is a drop in the price ft ct chick ens and the farmer often gets leea less clear profit binm holding his birds till cold weather eather hin ho he would b have 0 o had from belling selling earlier the beet beat way 1 Is to keep culling right along hen you have a number of chickens to market call up tho the butcher and sell thorn them bo be foro fore leaving home dont put your self solf in the position of a man with a load which ho he must sell at any price rather than take it home if taio akens are lanky and have hill MOP mear on their bonem cc cap p them for ten days or two weeks and fatten 4 A 4 is 1 11 pv M ao i excellent flock of white plymouth rocks A fattening coop ith a slatted bottom Is easily made male and Is useful tho the year around fasten a trough for feed and sour milk in front of the coap and keep the feeding trough clean clit green food grit and freh fresh water seven parts ground oats and one part barley meal mixed with milk ts to a fa fattening ration avith ath br but cooped birds fed mash and crocked corn with sour milk put on enough fat tat to pay well for the wark make old birds into pressed chicken or coop coup sell over fat tat birds and kill and bum weaklings wea klings but in sums way cull the flock so that the chicken house will not oe do overcrowded but comfortably filled with hens every one of which is la in shape to earn bar living RATION FOR EGG production farm not given enough ani ant nial mal or ground food mix corn and nd wheat for winter feed ny 1 1 U 8 expert ment station agg production depend largel 1 upon croper feeding nations rations tor for farm roul ry flocks can gene generally Tally bj bi cratl died first because they cortlen lit tie ground food and nd second because animal food ie Is usually lacking ailese two faults can easily be corrected cor retted dy by feeding ground grains in addition ti the whole grains and by lital belmal food in the form of cour sour elbro milk or the feed coet cost lot log a doyen doren owl ge catz be materially reduced A good grain ration for winter use Is made by mixing CO 40 pounds of corn with 30 0 pounds of at chett for summer mix 60 pounds of wheat with 30 pounds of corn in addition to the corn and wheat the following mixture of ground foods Is excellent dran bran two pound corn mil m il two pounds two po flit beef scraps one pound this lire can be afef fe dry la in hop pers which should be fript pt open dir dar ing be the oa on oata oats ard are to use as a dry mash either alone or mixed with other ground feeds if it available give buttermilk or four tour skim milk as an a drink the fowls should eat about one half as much mash an grain food about twice 4 much grain should be he fed at night as in the morning at A night feed all that the birds will wit eat during the day beep keep tho the ecna scratch ng tn in straw litter a foot deep this etier should be free from molds supplement the above ration with treen food such as an beets cabbab e sprouted ip routed oas oats ao silage etc grit aster shell or embed crushed limestone elneal ae ifould be ava avau able at all times feed cjan c an feed and supply plenty of dean ilean fresh water |