Show HEALTHY HEN IS EGG ESSENTIAL feed must furnish fuel to keep fowls warm have more work to do in order to lay eggs in winter than any other time of year for one thing teed feed must furnish fuel for or keeping them warm to manufacture whites yolks and shells of eggs requires a healthy body supplied with certain food elements which hens mitu naturally rallY pick up in the spring and summer A number of important food elements have been found to be contained in buttermilk lactic odd acid milk proteins vitamins and similar food elements are easy to supply in the iny ing wash hy by the addition of 10 per cent or more of dried buttermilk A ration consisting of 25 pounds of wheat bran 23 25 pounds of standard SO 30 pounds of cornmeal cornnie nl 5 pounds bone meal and 15 pounds of dried buttermilk has given fine results in feeding the laying mash should be kept before the rock flock all the time end and should be supplemented by feeding scratch grain twice a day by including n the dried buttermilk with the dry dri mash poultry raisers overcome the bother of freezing as well as the trouble of keeping that Is encountered when liquid buttermilk Is 19 fed buttermilk Is easy to keep and easy to feed yet it supplies the very food elements needed for hens to lay in cold weather many poultry raisers who have provided warm houses and have been disappointed by no increase in egg production will be surprised by the results given from feeding a good egg laying mash |