The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-02

twenty-five hens, is fair mess, and it
will not only serve as a change. but is
a safeguard against bowel disease. as
1t prevents constipation and promotes
digestion Cotton-seed meal is fully it's
equal in feeding value, but it is con-
stipating, and for that reason 1inseed
meal should be used in preference.
THE CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF
FARM POuLTRY.
Extracts from a paper read by J. E.
Meyer Kossuth, Ont, at the annual
meeting of the Canadian Poultry Asso-
ciationJ
There is no livestock that will pay,
when properly managed. a larger per-
centage of profit than poultry. Yet how
many farmers neglect their fowls. They
forget that they require suitable shelter
and food. as do their horses, cattle and
PIGS Many of our farmers have barns
facing south, with more or less shed at
tlacned, In which manure is placed Now
situated to build his poultry house is
in as sheltered place as possible, SO
near the barnyard that the fowls can
have access to it at all times. There Is
no place that the fowls will enjoy more
during the sunny days of winter than
scratching in the manure; and even in
rather cold, stormy days they will not
face. south and have plenty of glass
towards the south. Nothing is better for
the fowls than sunlight; nothing is
worse for their health than damp. Be
sure your building is in dry place.
Frame is better material to use than
stone or gravel. You cannot build 1t
too warm. Any extra money you
spend TO make the building warm will
return to you tenfOld.
| shall now describe to you the In
terror of the poultry house and the fowls
of a farmer visited not long since
lido so because / believe that there are
ing out the improvements that should
be made, I may assist some who wish
to make their poultry pay. The perches
were placed on a level at one end OF
the room, for there was but one room,
without a dropboard underneath. The
droppings under. the perches had been
| accumula ting for months; the rest OF
the floor was Shiny with filth. In the
device called g self-feeder, to which the
fowls could go at all times and find,
or, rather, not find, plenty. OF gram.
1t would hold several bushels, and It is
water was all but filed with ice, and
there was enough nest boxes along one
side for five times the number OF hens
he had His flock Of too fowls Tar@ ih arg 4
contained birds from few months %
six or seven years of age. Did the
owner get any eggs? Did he deseTy,e E
to get any ask! a ana pS 6orses w ann
in the neighborhood. Were they in
filth? Did he use self-feeding devices
for them? No, indeed; he knew well
that such treatment would soon ruin
his fine stock. OF course his hens don
lay. What should he do?
First the perches. a great deal more more
suppose. In this case they were not
high up, beirg about three feet from the
floor, so the fowls ran no great risk OF
every morning. Look at that hotbed OF
filth and disease drought which the fowls
are constantly walking underneath the
perches. Just think of the countless
millions of lice such a place would breed
in warm weather, and all the Scaly-legs
and like filth that would so with them
While speaking of perches, allow me 20
use several other examples. l saw in
one place perches at least ten feet high;
The owner was complaining of lice, and
well he might. Just think OF the millions
of them day after day sitting up there t5I
return of the birds night for the feast
| they never earned. Then there is the
perch with the high seat and the low
! seat and the seats between, on when all
f! the birds quarrel for the high seat. Ihe
| simplest and in every way the manifest
way to build percheS is, first to bulld
! tight platform about three feet high, and
: about a foot above his place your perches
which should be movable: Coal oil, when
used regularly on and about the perches
! is the simplest way to keep down hce
! You can easily get at perches arranged
! in this way. 1t will be quite easy q
I clean off the drop board twice week
! You clean your horse and cow stables a
least once a day, and consider is neces
sity. You must attend to your, poultry
in the same regular manner II they lhe1
Do not forget that filth causes lice, an(
! that YOU cannot raise lice and eggs 10
| gether. That self-feeder should be takeI
/ Out and destroyed. The floor should pt
! Uttered six inches deep with straw, alC
| grain. lust enough at a time, Snould pt
thrown amongst it The hens will scratch
! for it, and plenty of exercise means more more
eggs. Lazy hens rarely, lay. Hens ems Nee l
/ a, Variety of food. Wheat IS Jhe De2
grain. but corn. buci1wheat, and pare!
! are good. Oats are best crushed, as other
wise they will leave the light gram
Pulped turnips, cabbage ana appiies ar ar
/ necf eeary. as well as meat occaslonaIly
/ But clover hay, or better, second cl "
/ clover. cut fine, mixed with crushed gram
and steamed by placing In WoOo93tt
pail and pouring boiling water over IT. IL
and then covering with a cioth TOT q tll al'e
! makes a most excellent ana cheap e6t
| food. 1t should be fed in the mornihS
! Give your fowls warm water to drink
least twice a day during cold Wlnte
Weather. 1t will more than pay you
increased egg production.