Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-04-21
POULTRY FEEDING.
Words of Advice from a Woman Who
Knows Whereof She Speaks.

Knows Whereof She Speaks.
In a pager contributed TO the Wis
consin farm institutes, Mrs Ida T.
TikOn 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-
plaoe 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 safe food
to be given as soon as it can be swal-
lowed, and meat can be given with
care that il 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 a day,
larger ones three times, and grown
fowls twice. A quart of grain per day
for every ten hens has been found
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 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 pbosphateS Burned bone is a
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 more pudding than usual, as it
is easily digested, and add sun-hower
seed and corn for fat. forming foods.
Milk, if sweet. is a perfect food and
model drink. A fermented sour is not
identical with a natural acid, like
fruit juice, hence sour milk freely
used needs little soda added or a
slight scalding, else it may prove too
laxative. Lime water can be given in
excess, but, tried for day or so at
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 and
drinking where they can, unless water
dishes and feed -troughs are previously
filed and conveniently placed. The /
Douglass mixture is Il 10. sulphate OF
iron and l or sulphuric acid, dissolved
in 2 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 1
modern tendency, since So worth of
time and medicine are generally re-
quired for curing each 25-cent bird. /
Decapitation applies also to scaly-
legged, gg-eating, roaming fowls and /
all morbid conditions. If eggs are
gathered often. and glass nest-eggs
are used, the egg-eating habit probably |
will never be learned The Japanese /
egg gourd, when grown to q, proper
size, is a cheap and good nest-egg