St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-20
POULTRY FOR PROFIT.
An Eastern Mechanic Makes a
Nice Addition to His Income in
This WaV


Nice Addition to His Income in
This Way.
An Eastern man, employed in shoe
factory, raises poultry for recreation.
From 100 hens he claims to average an
income of 80 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 profitable.
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 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,
cabbages. etc, are boiled thoroughly and
hashed fine, the liquor in which they were
boiled added, together with boiling hot
water in quantity sufficient; then it is
sailed and the meal stirred in till the
whole is stiff mash, great care being
taken to stir up the vegetables 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 long time, and
these are 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 lOoSening. This
mash
FOR THE MORNING FEED
is made up directly after supper by our
friend himself. He says his wife's arm
isn't as strong as his, and he notices
that ii any one else but himself Stirs it
up the vegetables don't get so
thoroughly 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 fire.
quent rakings in the winter; fine
chopped hay and chaff are added to it,
and sometimes dry leaves are gathered
in the fall, and a bushel or two
thrown down each week in 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 is 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 having
found that he could buy them by the
caSk at 60 cents hundred pounds as
against IL cents a pound at retail.
Having tried several kinds of drink
ing fountains, he has discarded
them all and uses now in each house
a 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 winter they are
not filled till the morning, and then
with tepid wgter. The boy fills them
again at noon, and if any are more than
half-empty at last feeding they are re-
filled, SO that clean water is always ac-
cessible. Our friend has Wilson IS
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 a
liberal quantity to feed to the growing
chickens in spring and summer.