Show FLOCK PROFITS BY CHANGE IN RATION method said to increase egg E gg production one principle of success in feeding f for or egg production Is to change the feed often says saya a successful vancouver island he feeds a laying mash made up of pounds of shorts pounds of finely ground barley 60 50 pounds of cornmeal and 25 pounds of pilchard elsh meal island clam shell Is used instead of oyster shell to supply lime for greens he uses anything available in october his hens get wild english mustard later they have kale and cull vegetables three times a week he gives 9 ives a feed of boiled barley and occasionally casio caslo nally a feed of scalded wheat in place of hard iraln g iraln about two thirds as much wheat as would be given as aa hard bard grain Is scalded and let stand an hour or so for scratch he uses equal parts wheat and groats fed in the customary proportions per hundred birds groats make good bone and are high in vitamins Hull less oats are the same thing as groats so BO far as a hen Is concerned this egg producer feeds the grain in troughs instead of in litter except for the breeding flock when he Is able to get milk the fish meal Is cut out of the mash feeding rations on this plant are cut to the bare essentials no fancy fixings are included in the laying mash but the pullets were laying satisfactorily and were in g good shape high feed and low egg prices are stirring up a lot of poultry men to cut the cost of laying rations nor west farmer |