Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-13

foods as oil-cake, no fixed rule or standard
or ration can be blindly followed. Intel
ligence and common sense combined with
a proper understanding of the foods are the
, feeders best and safest guide. Begin with
a small quantity, say one-half pound or
one pound, gradually increase the allow
ance. observing the effect and limiting the
amount by the effect produced; thus suit
the ration to the animal and to its ability
TO properly digest the food do not try to
force the animal to any fixed ration.
KEEPING EGGS.
A great many plans are given for keep
ing eggs, out the safest mode is always
turn the eggs. If they are turned three
times week, and kept in cool place, no
packing material is necessary at all. The
reason they should be turned is that when
an egg remains in certain position for
length Of time the yolk approaches and
adheres to the shell. 1t is not necessary
to turn each egg separately, but to pack
them in a box and turn the box. They
may be packed in a barrel and the barrel
turned half around, with the same results.
To keep eggs without going to the neces-
sity of making any kind of composition use
fine, clean, dry dirt or ashes, either from
wood or coal, but they must be fine. In a
box or barrel first lay down a layer of dirt
or ashes, then a layer of eggs, care being
taken that the eggs do not touch each
other. Fill the spaces between the eggs
with dirt-or ashes, and then put on a layer
of dirt or ashes an inch thick Repeat
the process until the box Or barrel is full,
and before closing be sire everything is
packed in a tight and dose manner. so
that the contents will not shake when the
top is put on. Turn daly, if preferred,
but twice a week at Least Be sure and
use none but perfectly fresh eggs. No
other kind will keep, no matter how well
they may be packed. fYou cannot get
fresh eggs by purchased even from your
neighbor, for ne will sometimes be unaware
of the presence of those tllat might be stale.
A single bad egg viii sometimes spoil all.
You will have to keep 5our own hens in
order to succeed in PRESERVING eggs. The
eggs from hens not in company with males
will keep twice as long as those from hens
running with males.-Poxdy Keeper.
CLABBERED MILK FOE CHICKS.
A correspondent of thesPoultry Yard de-
clares that with his experience of twenty
years he must say that there is no feed on
earth that is SO good for young chickens or
old fowls as sour milk, ekbbered milk or
cheese curd made from sour milk. Even
old sour butternrilk, for bid fowls is the
best of food, but all of this must have some
meal and Judgment added TO it. No gapes
no cholera among chickens that are fed on
sour milk, and kept from lice His feed
is fresh ground cornmeal, oatmeal, shorts,
wet with clabbered milk, some cracked
corn and whole wheat, fed according to the
age of the chickens. Raising chickens is
something like making cheese. There is
time and place for every step from the
egg to the full-growu chicken Exper-
fence, with the right kind of perseverance,
will raise chickens and take good care Of
old fowls. Sour milk, thickened with
shorts and meal, fed every morning. and
some kind of whole grain at night. is his
best feed for eggs. 1t is our impression
that the fresh ground cornmeal, the oat-
meal and shorts, the cracked corn and
whole wheat constitute pretty good var
iety offood, even with the sour milk left
out, and Tor very small chicks we would 50
leave it. For older fowls sour milk is
trst-class. New milk won't hurt them.
though.