Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-04-06
POULTRY sesLlns.A
Words Of Advice frosa = woman wh.
Knows Whereof She Speaks

Words OF Advice frosa = woman Nhs
Knows Whereof She Speaks
In paper contributed 10 the Mis-.
consin farm institutes. Mrs Ida f.
iiison said: There is no safer food for
little chicks than milk curd and bread
and milk. Hard boiled eggs perhaps
once every other day is good. but the
cheaper corn meal must gradually re.
place these Soon, one-third of bran.
ground oats, rye or beans. and two.
thirds corn meal will be relished. To
neither chickens nor hens give any
sort OF meal without scalding it salt,
pepper and other spices. when used.
are mixed dry sparingly in the meal
before wetting. Wheat 1. n safe food
to be given as soon As IL can be swal-
lowed. and meat can be given with
care that II does not prove laxative.
Corn is prominently the fa,,ening
food. Wheat buclSwheat, rye, yege-
tables and meat are bone for ming and
egg-producing. Barley is n favcrite i'm
England, because standing midway be-
tween wheat and corn, contributing
somewhat to both eggs and flesh.
feed little chicks five times a day.
larger ones three times, and grown
fowls twice. A quart OF grain per dav
Tor every ten hens has been found "A
satisfactory winter ration. To this /
add, one day in each three. chopped
vegetables and fine charcoal. cooked
meat and gravel, meal pudding
and bone meal. Dat huIs are
SO dry and harsh, they are rather
indigcstible. Whole oats. though AN
excellent summer food. cannot there
fore be recommended during winters
trying confinement Raw bone Is bone.
with its pbosphntes Burned bone is n
good but expensive form of lime and
charcoal A half ration OF grain will
suffice for summer with its insects and
grass, but particular at tention must be
given food in moulting time. Then
feed moro pudding than usual. us IL
Is easily digestei. and add sun-hower
seed and corn for fat forming foods.
Milk, II sweet is a perfect food and
model drink. a fcrmeuted sour Is not
Identical with natural acid. like
fruit juice, hencc sour milk freely
used needs little soda added or a
slight scalding, else IL may prove too
laxative. Lime water can be given in
excess, but, tried fer day or so nj "A
time, is an excellent regulator of the
bowels. give poultry warm water in
winter. because digestion Is helped
thereby When lighthouses are opened
mornings, their thirsty, hungry in
mates rush in all directions, eating ana
drinking where they can, unless water
dishes and feed-troughs are previously
filled and conveniently placed The
Douglass mixture is lib. sulphatc of
iron and or sulphuric acid, dissolved
in gallons of water. A teaspoonful
of this mixture TO every pint OF drink
ing water was formerly very popular
as tonic. Decapitating rather than
doctoring sick fowls seems To be the
modern tendency. since So worth of
time and medicine are generally re-
CURED for curing each 25-cent bird.
Decapitation applies also TO scaly-
legged, egg-eating, roaming fowls and
all morbid conditions If eggs are
gathered often, and glass nest-eggs
are used, the egg-eatiug habit probably
will never be learned. The Japanese
egg gourd, when grown to proper
size, is cheap and good nest-egg.