Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-03
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Winter Food for Poultry.

We have before alluded in the columns of
the Farmer to the importance of supplying
Fowls with animal food. There Is even greater
need of attention being paid to this during
the later months of the fall and through the
winter, than in the summer months because
the fowls can then, in a measure, obtain their
own supply by catching winged insects, and
picking up worms. When scarcity occurs,
they will scratch the ground and unearth any.
thing that may be below the surface, be il
worm or seed. as every gardener knows to his
sorrow.
But in the winter all such operations ara
suspended. The insects burros deep and the
earth freezes over them, or else they perish
outright The hens are thenceforth pu, on
an allowance of corn, having less change 10
the matter of food than State prison convicts
enjoy. Now hens will eat-coru and thrive
on 1t, to certain extent, when they can get
nothing else to devour. They may keep fat.
and prepare themselves to be devoured nj
Christmas, but they will lay very few eggs,
and are liable to become unhealthy. s
To insure good supply of eggs during the
winter, We must feed our hens with materials
that contain good supply of those substances
from which eggs are formed. Fresh meat
chopped fine, bits of fish, rinds of cheese, and
such like things saved from the table today,
will come back to the table in due time, in
the form of new laid eggs.
That the poultry may remain healthy during
the winter, they should occasionally be fed
with vegetables. Boiled cabbage is good, aud
the same may be said of potatoes and carrots. I.
Too many farmers reverse the food that should
be fed to hogs and poultry. They give the
hogs all the warm, cooked leavings from the
table, and furnish the hens with breakfast,
dinner and supper from the corn crib. The
opposite rule would be the better one, for
both hen and hog.
Heps like a variety of food, and in the
winter when they are kept in close quarters,
and their digestion is accordingly Impaired
from want of exercise, they require NJ 6. {
cooked food. One winter when eggs
scarce and high we obtained from d..
young Brahmas all the eggs we wanted for
pies and puddings, as well as for serving up
'fried or on the half shell )" and this is how
we did it; we gave the hens, once day, .
good meal of hash, just such an article as Is
prepared for the table, only made of less choice
material we took cooked meat, boiled pota-
toes and onions chopped them together and
seasoned with pepper. Such q dish is not .
costly ope-livers and scraps of meat rejected
on the table, potatoes and onions too small to
use, and little fat that would go into soap
grease, will, when chopped and warmed up,
make savory dish for the fowls in the
henuery.
In preparing for obtaining eggs We must
not forget that the eggs will require shells
For this end we should lay suitable amount
of bones, or else should pulverize such as are
in the meat We are daily cooking, and keep
this where it will not become covered with
filth. Besides this, the fo@ls should have.
from time to time, some coarse, sharp sand or
gravel, to serve the place of teeth.
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