Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1912 — FEEDING HOT CORN TO HENS [ARTICLE]

FEEDING HOT CORN TO HENS

Bhould be Supplemented With Wheat and Oats—Fowls Also Like Their Water Heated a Trifle. V. ' If the hens are fed hot com for supper, they will go to bed happy these cold winter nights. Feed it just as hot as they can eat it comfortably. Shell some in the baking pan, and stir and heat in the oven. As the. weather grows colder, Increase the supply of corn. It Is a heating food. But never feed it alone. A good grain mixture for winter is two parts of,whole com, one peyt each wheat and oats, all well mixed. . Many hens never know what It Is to he comfortable from one end of the winter to the other, except on a day when it thaws. You cannot ex-’ pect hefts to do well under such conditions. To do well they most be comfortable. The worst thing Is to make poultry drink Ice-cold water. They must warm that water before the work of digestion can go on again. Warm the water for them —not hot, but just comfortably warm.