Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-04-10
FARM NOTES.

tUDa $50 FOOD FOR / OW LS--HOS
20 feed well aud at the same time
economically is often the question
with people VINO must make their fowls
pay Iu dollars aud dimes. as well as In
pleasure AID recreation. And even
Tie wealthy fowl owners are not averse
20 having their fowls pay for their food
AMI care, even If they are not expected
% raw for their expensive houses and
fancy runs. With persons living east
OF the Rocky Mountains corn mus.
always continue 70 be the cheapest
food, bu. &c has been Objectionable as a
constant food on account of its fatten-
IEE properties. We believe by cooking
the corn whole until quite soft and
swollen To the fullest extent that a
flock Of hens may lie Kept IN a good
laying coalition when fed corn almost
exclusively, We have been experiment.
ing with corn boiled very soft, roasted
and parChed until well baked through
and very little fed IN its natural state,
and find our hens laying splenGidly
upon IL. They have been fed as much
as they cared 10 eat, were running
upon "a good grass run and fed no
other Kind OF dry or green food. This
food, we may say, is very cheap, cost
ing lfty cents Fer bushel, and kept
tie hens in finer condition and at less
cost than anything else that We could
iced
Corn, oats. and wheat are increased
almost double SIZE by cooking, and as
e natural result the hens will not get
.at because they get only half as much
solid matter when fed cooked as when
led dry grain. They relish it greatly.
Al, soft foods and vegetables make
BETTER food for fowls If cooked or
scalded well. If a large kettle and
plenty or water and fuel is accessible,
10 iS very little trouble cooking the
ratiOus Of several hundred hens. If
only q small flock is kept, enough food
can be cooked IN a small dish or pan
10 DO them day. Cooked food should
not he kept until sour and stale, but
should be fed sweet and wholesome.
We are satisfied that a saving of nearly
one half can lie elected by the proper
use OF water, steam, and dre.
How To IMPROVE FARM-The
best and the shortest way to improve
= farm is to reduce the stock, plow
your fallOws in winter so that the soil
VIII be warm and dry and the subsoiI
tecomposed early in the spring. Har-
row well and then sow ten or twelve
quarts Of grass seed TO the acre when
You put III your oats. If all take,
your chance is good for obtaining from
live TO ten acres Of oats and a field
seeded down to grass. Then prepare
as many acres for rye-sowIng, pro-
EIded your land is not good enough
for wheat, and the two crops will give
You all the straw you need, aud the
corn leld, with usual good luck, will
produce enough to fattea stock. At the
end OF the season you will have the
produce from fifteen or twenty acre.
u land, represented in oats, corn and
potatoes, and as many acres sown with
Tye and wheat. Keep Just stock enough
10 eat up the produce IN grain and
hay, and after gathering your next
Years crop OF hay and grain, covering
say fifty acres of your farm of one
huuured acres, you may think OF add
ing IS many head of cattle as your
farm Will sustain without purchasing
heavily OF foreign supplies. By the
end OF the fourth year you are ready
TO puo IN u crop Of wheat and save
p.owlng up your bottom meadow, you
have Ie-Seeded your whole farm and
are now ready TO enlarge your dairy
and at the end OF ten years your land
ought 10 lie in a condition TO double
your crops and the number OF your
cattle. This is rotation.