The Springdale news., 1888-11-09
POULTRY FOR PROFIT.
How n Mechanic Makes Nice Addition
 to His Income.

to His Income.
 An Eastern man, employed in a shoe factory, raises poultry for recreation. From 130 hens he claims to average an income of Sc per week for nine months of the year. He caters to the wants of his poultry instead of going down town and whiting pine sticks at the corner grocery, and finds it far more profit able
 lie makes a mash for the morning feed all the year round; mixes cracked corn, barley, buekwheat and wheat screenings in equal parts for the noon feed, and whole wheat at night In the colder weather he feeds whole corn twice a week. His mash is made as follows: Equal parts of corn meal, shorts, fine feed (middlings) and ground beef scraps form the meal part. Potatoes. carrots, beets, turnips, cab bapes, etc, are boiled thoroughly and mashed fine, the liquor in which they were boiled added, together with boil ing hot water in quantity sufficient; then it is salted and the meal stirred in till the whole is stiff mash, great care being taken to stir up the vege- tables from the bottom and have it well mixed in. A large apple tree near the house bears three or four barrels Of very hard cider apples, which keep a long time, and these are used as long as they last care being taken that not hon h p1 Inf ha ta hI Ia ,.+ shall be apples, as they might be too loosening. This mash for the morning feed is made up directly after sup per by olr friend himself He says his wife's arm isn't as strong as his, and he notices that if any one else but himself stirs 1t Hp the vegetables don't get so thor oughly mixed in. The grain fed at noon and night is scattered on the gsoandin summer outside in the yards, in winter on the sand gravel floor of the houses. This floor is kept fresh by frequent rakings in the winter; fine chopped hay and chaf are added to it. and sometimes dry leaves are gathered in the fall. and a bushel or two thrown 6own eacA week Tn the houses. Raw cabbage or raw turnips are given about twice a week in winter, but our friend believes more in cooked vegeta- bles than in raw. as k shown by the liberal quantity used in the mash. Cracked oyster shells are kept in an old salt box in each house so the fowls can eat all they want, our friend hay ing found that lie could buy them by the cask at sixty cents q hundred pounds as against one and a half cents q pound at retail. Having tried sey eral kinds of drinking fountains he has discarded them all and Uses now in each house two-quart tin basin set into a 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 retills them with fresh. clean water. In win ter they are not filled till the morning. and then with tepid water. The boy fills them again at noon, and if any are more than half-empty at last feeding they are reflled. so 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 q liberal quantity to feed to the grow ing chickens ill spring and summer.- !St. Paut Globe.