The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-11-14
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A Poultry Taik.


kinds chopped and perhaps mixed WITH
a sprinkllng OF bran or middllnRs,
and even laying fowls can be fed
largely In the same manner. have
corn OF the large yellow variety as high
as ten feet with OF course quite thick
hard stalk. which chop for them and
mix With their mush In equal quantities,
and they eat IL all readily. eating first
the pieces OF stalk which, although SOM
what plthy. are sin juicy Afterward
they eat the leaf. bat eat all. and hay-
ing supply OF chopped corn. carrot
or cabbage to work ON through the day,
il keeps them bright and fresh looking
and In good condition. For this purpose
sunfiowdr seed fed to them occasionally
Is good also. but like corn Tor even more
sol it is very fattening and should not
be generously fed. as fat fowl Is com
paratively very poor layer. especially
where yarded and deprived of the ex-
ercise 1t would have II 1t was on free
range.
] am inclined to think that when fowls
are yarded, particularly In somewhat
small yards, the tendency Is to over
feed. which I consider another argu-
mtnt In favor of feeding green stuff
plentifully. as even when quite feshy,
II fed In this way. it does not seem
10 lessen the number of eggs as It
would II they were fattened on corn or
wheat
On two acres OF land. we'll watered,
enough green stuff can be raised to feed
1000 hens and to spare. and at trifling
cost, and 20 acres in grain. which In
these days OF combined harvesters need
not cost one outside his own labor)
more than - or at the outside So an
acre in sacks. on his own land, would
furnish the necessary grain. One mans
labor Is sufficient Except he harvesting)
for all this and the necessary care Of
the fowls. particularly IL he has family
inclined 10 be helpful In the care OF the
chicks Therefore 1t seems TO me that
we really could prepare ourselves 20
meet successfully competition prices II
we gave ourselves determlnedly to the
effort. We need very little. really. that
we cannot raise ourselves. such as
gravel. Shells charcoal and some lime
These things. II we except the shells.
are OF trihing cost and Ill a ver.r
There is great deal in feeding fowl
in such maner as to make them good
layers, and while do not advocate the
fos eeing or stimulating OF fowls TO make
them lay. do believe in getting and
keeping them in the best possible ~on-
dition by careful and regular feeding OF
good and nourishing food In proper
quantity-sufticlen but not too much,
as overfed foEls become dumpy and re-
fuse 10 lay. By condition / do not mean
fat or fesh. but a bright. fresh, healthy
appearance. indicating that the fowl is
in its best state for the doing of its full
duty as an egg-produeer. and with the
fowl In this condition. not only are the
eggs produced more In number, but they
are larger and finer and contain more
nutriment, are richer In flavor and In
every way than an egg laid by a poorer
or an overfed fowl, and for this reason
eggs from properly kept poultry farms
and known as selected ranch eggs"
are always In demand at higher prices
than are eggs from poultry allowed u
forage for their own food and getting
little care. Such eggs come into mar
ket through the store and are known as
4" store eggs, which. by the by. are
not up TO the mark In goodness, as wit
ness the experience OF friend of mine
not lsng since during the hot monthsL
who on buying dozen eggs ut the store
and finding only three of the dozen
good, begged the grocer To give him
three more eggs, that he might stand
show of getting half-dozen at least
,..N .lNN . 10 II xr-flI 10 ID
NIT, however, that this was perhaps an
extreme case, and that the store eggs
are not always quite so bad as were
these.
Where one desires to feed egg food ne
will find the following recipe, think, as
good as any and as little hurtful; IN
fact, they are all things constantly
needed by fowls to keep them in proper
condition: Ten pounds of best ground
scrap beef. pounds fine ground bone,
pounds granulated or powdered char
coal, l pound sulphur, ounces cayenne
pepper, ounces salt. One quart of thl
mixture to every hundred fowls say
twice week will be found helpful and
is to be given in soft food.
In this connection 1 would say also
noon a mush of middllngs unless very
rich. when bran should be mixed with
Itl mixed with scalding water or milk,
and milk Is much the best, as stiff as
can be made. At night give a feed ol
grain, principally wheat, but barley, rye,
buckwheat or an occasional feed of corn
may be used also, and for the mush a
mixture of ground rye, barley and oats
with an equal bulk of bran may be used
in the place OF the middlings. l have
been for some time past substituting
fine-cut green stuff for half the mid
dlings or ground grain mixture Of the
mush, and find it exec llent.
1 know of no other thing SO good as
plentiful supply of green stuff to keep
fowls bright and fresh-looking, and con-
sequently healthy.-T. B. Geffroy of Lodi
in Rural Press.
Sorghum Is extensively grown on this
coast and fed green to milch COWS. Ii
Is growing in popularity for this use.
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