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Evening Star, Issue 14036, 17 April 1909, Page 11

It, IS a _ very good plan to let the fowls go hack Into the scratching sheds for three or four hours after a warm meal, and this cam easily be done by scattering a few grains of corn amongst the dry litter on the floors of these. After the first few mornings there will be little trouble in driving the birds in, as they get accustomed to it, and they will go into the covered rim again as soon as they have finished their breakfast;- They should be fastened in with - a wire door when it is fine, so that light and air may enter, and the place made and kept comfortable. The plan ot housing we advise is to have attached to every house a covered run where the fowls may run in and be sheltered irom wind and weather, and get plenty of scratching exercise. In verv cold weather they should be fed in their co\eicn runs, and thus be protected from the cold winds, which are likely to do them very great harm on cold and windy mornings

, Riscuit meal is one of the very best loods to use, and it can be given alone occasionally as a change, and the birds will cat much less of this than of a-bulky mixture of meals of poor quality. In feeding fowls for eggs the" quality of the food must he considered, and those who look at every penny they spend on their fowls food are not in the way of making their birds pay at all, for unless the material is furnished to the birds they are quite unable to give the returns they otherwise would do.

First ot all, the birds must have sufficient tood given them to maintain them in health and good condition, and then to make the eggs, and this is just the point which so many people -.vho arc foolishly economical m their feeding lose sight of. It the towls possess first of all the eggwhwV DaC hlneT la .Viag qualities, n Inch they own by the law of heredity'tup, the:> arc , fed on Pgg-forming foods, thej cannot be kept back from laying: and these matters require the thoughtful consideration-vot poultry-keepers to an extent realised by few. lor the gram to produce eggs on, give the beat wheat five nights a week and sTouh fU % “ c W e d,” but always Stoutl fo. the other two nights when the weather is not cold, and when it is, then give them maize for these two nights in place of the oats. ■ °