| Show FARM y EARLY MOLT NOT RIGHT FOR EGGS careful feeding will encourage hens to lay more poultry keepers who fed a wet mash in addition to the regular grain and dry mash kept their hens laying heavily last year says L M surd hurd of tile the new york state college of agriculture liens hens should be kept in production through careful feeding during the summerland sum summer merand and early fall so that they will molt rapidly and soon return to producing records of the missouri college of agriculture show that early molting bolting hens lay fewer eggs during the following winter than those hens which molt late in the summer and fall fail hens should have an abundance of tender leafy green food sha fresh clean water at all times hens that do not re spond to good treatment should he be removed so as to give the others a better chance skim milic or deml solid buttermilk at the rate of one or two pounds to a hundred birds should be used A good plan for feeding this Is to mix it and enough water with the regular dry mash this mash should be fed in the afternoon just before the night feeding of grain the heni should have hae only what they can eat up in twenty minutes if milk Is not available fill fall a pall half full of dry fill it up with water and let it stand from one afternoon until the next then add enough of the regular dry nash to take up the remaining moisture and feed as described above after september 3 1 poultry men have had bad good results irom from using lights to prolong the laying season late in the fall this should he discontinued to give the hens an opportunity to molt before cold went weather ber and rest for the breeding season |
