Poultry Kations.

As a resultof many experimenta with feeding layiug heus, authorities seern to agree that a ratiou containing about ;wici; as much of the fat formers as of niuscle makers gives best results. The difficulty is that sorae hens in the flock iay more tlian others, and their individual characteristics interfere with the application of flxed rules. For fattening iens the ratiou should be abouc six times as much fat formers as muscle makers. The fact that the food of layíng heus consists of so large a variety - animal, vegetable and mineral - renders t impossible to formúlate a table of 'oods. As loug as they are fed together, nstead of separately, the ïioulayinghen will receive the same food as the producing bird and will consequently fatten, instead of aiipropriating, the food 'o eggs; henee, owiug to these individual peouliarities, the balanced ration is ixed at one to two, which approaches very nearly the composition of the egg. This difference in the feeding capacty of different individuals is íound in ierds of cows as well as in flocks of íens. As .Rural New Yorker says, it is quite likely that two cows standing side by Eide in the same barn might, with jrofit, be fed widely different rations, )ut it does not follow that the saving vould be great enongh to pay for the abor and time required to mix and feed pecial messes for eaoh ono.