Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-01-18

BILL OF FARE FOR Eco Production
Fanny FIeid," whose exceptional achieve
menl in egg production during the cold
months has been chronicled in these col
umns, reports to the Prairie Farmer her
methods of feeding, about which some of
'ur readers have inquired Hens must he
'npplied with egg making ma erial and
this must not be consumed as fuel to keep
hem warm. Success presupposcs com
rrrrable and clean quarters Corn is fat
,ening, but on this ration alone, even in
abundance. there will moi be eggs enough
TO paw for the trouble of Smelling the col o. VI
My WHY of feeding fowls in winter
md it works wonderfully WELLS to give
them a warm breakfast every morning,
Just as SION rs they can see 10 eat, few
andfuls OF grain at noon. and full feel
# grain at night. The warm breakfast IS
made OF vegetables. turnips. beets. carrots
u potatoes. boiled and mashed up with
heat bran or oat meal scalded with skim
milk or refuse from the kitchen boiled up
nd the soup thickened with bran; and
Shen sweet apples are plenty, we boil
hem, and mix With COZ n eal-sume,imes
one hing and sometimes another; We
i"n't believe in feeding one hing all the
time. anil the hens don't believe in it either.
don't think that my biddies need the
Don feed because they are hungry. hut give
II 10 them to make them scratch for exer.
Else and to keep them out of mischief.
scatter II around among the litter under
he shed and let them dig 1t out This
lunch is generally oats or buck wheat, and
once in while suuf ,wer seed At night
generally feed corn; hut if could get
wheat cheap enough. should feed that y,
'east half of the time. My fowls have
water or milk by them VII the time. and
green fU d is supplied by fastening csb.
'age heads up where the fowls Can help
themselves. Sometimes. when somebody
has time to attend to 1t, we give them n
change of green food In the shape Of raw
turnips or sweet apples chopped fine.
1.-Two winters ago took a new depart
ure on the meat question, and now ,Instea
d fussing 10 cook it and deal it out little
It time, just hang up u piece and lei
he fowls eat all they want When they
have meat within reach all the time there
IS not the slightest danger of their eating
TOO much. | get cheap meat from the
butcher, and am sure l am paid twice
over for the outlay. Crushed oyster shells
gravel, Charcoal and crushed raw bone.
IRE kept in the houses all the time Thi.
raw bone is an excellent thing for fowls
nd would be the last article Of food that
would think of dropping from my bddies
dill of fare. Where the, crushed oyster
shell cannot be obtained, lime in some
rther shape will do Just rs welt. One o
my neighbors bad two OF the rooms in hi.
nome pIastered this fall. and he saved al
he old plaster for his hens. The poultry
ralserS who neglect to get SUI ply Of
gravel Under cover before the grounc
iroze up, must do the next best thing
feed their broken dishes to their fowls
Break them into bits of II suitable sise, % nc
II will do just rs we'll as gravel believe
in sailing all the s0ft food. and used L
pat In dash Of pepper, sometimes mus
tard or ginger once IN y while, and hon
estly thonght the fowls were benefited
thereby but doubts are clesping in, and
am very much inclined TO dropEeysrythins
except the salt. r'.l 90, ''.,T % " Wv !