Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-29
POULTRY FOR PROFIT.
How . Mechanic Makes . Nice Addition
to His income.

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How Mechanic Makes . Nice Addition
to His Income.
An Eastern man, employed in . shoe
factory, raises poultry for recreation.
From $50 hens he claims to average an
income of 50 per week for zine 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.
He makes a mash for the morning
feed all the year round; mixes cracked
corn. barley, buckwheat and wheat
screenings in equal parts for the noon
feed, and whole wheat at night. In
thecolder 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. oeets. turnips, cab
oages, ETC., are boiled thoroughly and
hashed fine, the liquor in which they
were boiled added, together with boil
ing hot water in quantity sufficient;
then it is sailed and the meal stirred
in till the whcse is stiff mash, great
care being taken to stir up the vege-
tables from the bottom and have it " ell
mixed iA. Aaarge apple tree near the
house bears 'Garee or four barrels of
very hard cider apples, which keep a
long time. ard these are used as long
as tkey last, care being taken that not
more shanss third OF the vegetable part
shall be apples. as they might be too
ioesening. This mash for the morning
feed is made up directly after sup
per by our friend himself. He says
his wifes' arm isn't ;as strong
as his, ind he notices that if
any one else but himself stirs it
up vegetables don't get SO thor
GUghly x liked in. The gram fed at
moon ant night is scatterea on the
s,rOundip summer outside in abe yards,
in winter on the san6 grs9el floor of
the houses. This foer,is kept fresh
10y frequent rakings in theuinter; fine
chopped hay and chat are added to it,
and sometimes dry lessves'are gathered
in the fall. and q busbel or two
sthrows down each week IL the houses
Raw cabbage or raw turn1Ds are given
abOuttwice a week in win ter, but our
friend believes more in cooked vegeta-
bles Ian in raw, as issshown by the
liberai quantity used iiD the mask.
Cracked oyster shells are kept in an
Old:salt box in each house so the fowls
can eat all they want. oar friend hav-i
ing found that he could buy them by
the cask at sixty ceists hundred
pounds as against one AID half cents
a pound at retail Having tried seR-,
eral kinds of drinking fountains he has,
discarded them all enc uses now in
each house two-quart tin basin set,
into a stand, which lifts 1t three inches
from the ground and SO made that two
thirds OF the surface is covered. These
he rinses out every night and refiiis
them with fresh, cleGnsw alter. In VIM
ter they are not filled till the morning, /
and then with tepid water. The hey
iils them again at noor, and if any are
nose than half-eMpty at last feeding
they are refilled, SO thu clean water is
always accessible. Our friend has Il,
bon-s mill, in which he grinds all the
bones Of chicken or fcw Is eaten. meat
bones. etc, and adds to the meal for
the mash, taking special pains to have
"a liberal quantity to feed to the grow
ing chickens in spring. nd summer
st. Baug Globe. !