The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-04-09
POULTRY FEEDING,
Words OF Advice from Woman VIII
Knows whereof She Speaks.

Words OF Advice from n Woman who
knows whereof She Speaks.
In u paper contributed to the Wis.
consin farm institutes, Mrs. Ida Il.
Tilson said: There is no safer food foI
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 is n safe food
to be given as soon as it can be swal-
lowed, and meat can be given with
care that it does not prove laxative.
Corn is prominently the fattening
food. Wheat, buckwheat, rye, vege-
tables and meat are bone-fo1 ming and
producing. Barley is favorite in
England, because standing midway be-
tween wheat and corn, contributing
somewhat to both eggs and flesh. /
feed little chicks five times day,
larger ones three times, and grown
fowls twice. A quart of grain per day
for 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. Oat hulls are
SO dry and harsh, they are rather
indigestible. Whole oats, though an
excellent summer food, cannot there
fore be recommended during winters
trying confinement. Raw bone is bone,
with its phosphatcs. Burned bone is d
good but expensive form of lime and
charcoal. half ration of grain will
suffice for summer with it's insects and
grass, but particular at tention must be
given food in moulting time. Then
feed more pudding than usual, as il
| is easily digested and add sun-howel
seed and corn for fat forming foods
| Milk, if sweet. is perfect food anC
model drink A fermented sour is no
| identical with a natural acid, like
! fruit Juice, hepce sour milk freely
Used needs a little soda added or
slight scaldiug, else it may prove tor
laxative. Lime water can be given il
excess, but, tried for day or so at ;
time, is an excellent regulator of thu
bowels l give poultry warm water il
winter, because digestion is helped
thereby. When hen-houses are opened
mornings, their thirsty, hungry in
mates rush in all directions, eating ant
drinking where they can, unless water
dishes and feed-troughs are previously
filed and conveniently placed. Th'
Douglass mixture is = lb. sulphate o
iron and / o2. sulphuric acid, dissolved
in gallons of water A teaspoonfu
of this mixture to every pint of drink
ing water was formerly very popula
as tonic. Decapitating rather thar
doctoring sick fowls seems to be tht
modern tendency, since SO worth o
time and medicine are generally re
quired for curing each 25-cent bird
Decapitation applies also to scaly
legged, egg-eating, roaming fowls ant
all morbid conditions. If eggs ar
gathered often, and glass nest-egg
are used, the egg-eating habit probabl.
will never be learned. The Japanes
egg gourd, when grown to prope
size, is cheap and good nest-egg,
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