Show EGG WITHOUT USE OF CORN with ft a flock of vi vs rone rous well devel aped pullets or he hey i kept in a comfortable home house the sr of eggs egg which they will pr isbee durar the winter or entire year is only a question of how and what they are fed food feeding is to rive give the birds all thy can ton sume of a palatable mixture of teed that will supply all that is m bem fem ar to maintain the body and to manu fae ture the egg eggs since the first law of nature ie Is self preservation the amount to feed is important it if the feed ia is limited in amount or kind egg production I 1 Is first sacrificed and not body boily malat maintenance enante all that is known of the value of arti artl fitial light in increasing winter pro is i that it make makes it possible for the hens to eat more feed grains alone arc are fattening feeds an abundance of grain without a protein feed to supply the material mae necessary essary to make the waitr whiff of the tle egg and those without lime to make the shelf will not mot give a satisfactory egg production the necessary protein can be supplied eup plied by feeding akim skim milk butter milk meat moal meal fish or fresh meat which ever is in used must be supplied regularly and in proper amounts there is no variety of grain that is so important it should be b fed no matter what it costs As a rule the home produced foods are cheaper and will give anali factory results A good rood ratio a for egg production using the cheaper fans can be madl aa as follows scratch red wheat DO 80 ibs lbs oata oats 30 ibs lbs huh wash bran as 23 ibs lbs shorts 22 ibe lbs barley ground fine 0 0 ab ibs oats ground fine 12 ib ibs meat meal 18 ibs lbs charcoal 2 ibs lbs bait salt 4 45 ibs lbs bone done meal 1 ibs rio freed clean water and otaw shelf or crushed lime stone should always be kept available for the hens A daily eed of dry alfalfa leaves and mangles or of sugar beets Is also dosi desirable rable during winter aad and fresh green feed in the sum mer the amount of feed sup ply laying hens for ten days the scratch feel should be lei rel twice a day in clean dry straw litter about 6 to 8 S or 10 inches deep deer one third in the morning and two thirds in the late at afternoon the mash should be fed ft d dry and kert ia in feed hoppers always available to the hens and they should eat about the pro portion of 0 mash and scratch feed ghen in order t to proper ro perly bat baffe 2 fe the autri enta ento where the liens do im t cat eat it readily part of it via be mon with milk or water tu t make it more pal actable the dry mah mash is preferable it i the hens eat is readily because of the labor involved in mixing and feedon feeding a moist mash thirty seven pounds of af mill run bran and shorts aborts may be used tied to replace the bran and in the mash if the price of these feeds is more than 80 per cent of the cost of fine ground wheat then it Is I 1 advisable to use about thirty five pounds of ground wheat instead of the bran and aborts in the above mix ture this la s especial lly true when ground oata oats and barley are used in stead of corn if three gallons of skim milk or but te are available each day for each hene hens the neat meat meal may be left out of the iash and the ellb mt k aill ili furnish the necessary protein proton A part of this amount cf of milk may nay bi b used and a pro amount of meat meal added to the mash masil corn at present i it too eapen lve give to u use be a as 3 a an n I 1 important apor part of a 4 laying ration in this bo legality allty good re suit quite can he I 1 obtain obtains 1 by using the other grains kieru laying hen hens have been accustoms accustom 3 to airn as a part of their ration the c change hange to other grains should be made gradually byron alder poul tryman for utah expert anent station |