The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-11-16

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An Eastern man. employed In shoe
factory, raises poultry for recreation
From $50 hons no claims 70 average an
Income Of - per week Tor nine months
Of the year. Ho caters to the wants Of
his poultry instead Of going down town
and whiting pine sticks At the corner
grocery. and finds IL far more profit
able.
He makes = mash for the morning
feed all the year round; mixes cracked
corn. b. rley. buckwheat and wheat
screenings in equal parts for tho noon
feed. and whole wheat At night. In
the colder weather he feeds whole corn
twice = week. His mash Is made as
follows: Equal parts Of corn meal.
shorts. fine feed (middlings) and
ground beefscraps form the meal part.
Potatoes. carrots. bccts. turnips. cab
bages. etc. are boiled thoroughly and
hashcd fine, the liquor in which they
were boiled added. together with boil
ing hot water in quantity sufficient;
then II il sailed and the meal stirred
in till the whole Is still mash. great
care being taken TO stir up tho vege-
tables from the bottom and have il well
mixed in A large apple tree near the
house bears three or four barrels OF
very hard cider apples. which keep
long time. and these arc used as long
as they last, care being taken that not
more than third OF the vegetable part
shall be apples, as they might be too
looscning. This mash for the morning
feed is made up directly after sup
per by our friend himself. He says
his wife's arm isn't as strong
rs his, and he notices that il
any one else but himself stirs it
up the vegetables don't get so thor
oughly mixed in. The grain fed at
noon and night Is scattered on the
ground In summer outside in the yards.
in winter on the sand gravel floor OF
the houses This floor Is kept fresh
by frequent ral<ings in the winter; fine
chopped hay and chaff are added to il.
and sometimes dry leaves are gathered
In the fall. and bushel or two
thrown down each week IN the houses.
Raw cabbage or raw turnips are given
about twice week in winter. but our
friend believes more in cooked vcgeta-
bles than in raw, as Is shown by the
liberal quantity used in the mash
Cracked oyster shells are kept in an
old salt box in each house 50 the fowls |
can eat all they want. our friend hay
ing found that he could buy them BY
the cask at sixty cents hundred
pounds as against one and q half cents |
q pound ut retail Having tried sew
eral kinds Of drinking fountains he has
discarded them all and uses now in
each house two-quart tin basin set
into stand. which lifts it three inches
from the ground and so made that two
thirds Of the surface Is covered. These
he rinses out every night and refills
them with fresh. clean water. In win
ter they are not filed till the morning.
and then with tepid water. The boy
fills them again 1t noon. and II any are
more than half-empty at last feeding
they are refiIled. 90 that clean water Is
always accessible. Our friend has
bone mill. in which he grinds all the
bones Of chicken or fowls eaten. meat
bones. etc. and adds TO the meal for
the mash. taking special pains TO have
liberal quantity 70 feed TO the grow
ing chickens in spring and summer.
81 Paul Globe.