The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-10

day is too much. Now here comes G. w.
Ard. Haglehurst, Miss. Let us see what
he writes:
From experience find that it takes a
great deal more than q quart a day for
IL hens-common country hens My stock
are on bare yards just now; and I fed up
starting at quart a day-and find that
quart mash of wheat bran, ground oats,
corn and wheat, as morning meal and
green rye at noon, and quart and half
OF corn at night, brings the eggs. I grad
ually increased the quantity and noted re-
Suits and there was a greater egg increase
each week. l feed the same amount
week at a time. On alternate mornings l
give a quart of green bone, cut from a
Webster and Hannums bone mill, which
clips them very nicely; and on alternate
nights l give oats or wheat instead of
corn. This is just what the hens will eat,
and they leave none"
1t will be seen that Mr.. Ard feeds two
quarts or more, for he found that quart
was not enough. We venture to say, how
ever, that before he is aware of it, his
hens may suddenly stop laying, being very
fat. 1t is only matter of time with such
heavy feeding, especially if a meal is given
during the noon hour.
NOW, here are two cases in which it was
attempted to feed a certain quantity of
food per day to a number of hens. One
found the amount too much, and the other
discovered that 1t was insufficient.
Give half as much as they will eat in the
morning, nothing at noon, and full meal
at night. 1t may be quart day for
your hens or two quarts for your neigh
boris hens. No two hens are alike. The
same flock may eat more tomorrow than 1t
does today
THE DIFFERENCE IN PRODUCTION.
1t may be considered an extra item of ex-
pense to provide meat, bone and green food
for poultry, but there are hundreds of
w n IN hoir NV
feeding grain only. So long has it been
customary to look upon grain the nat
ural food of all kinds of poultry that some
consider their duty done when they have
given plentiful supply of it. The hen
really prefers bulky food as a portion of
her ration. No doubt many readers who
have tried the experiment of keeping
hopper or trough filled with corn or wheat
before the fowls all the time may have no
t1ced that the hens will eat but a small
portion of it. This is due to being surfeit-
ed with 1t. They have arrived at a stage
when the grain is not desired. They cease
to be productive The difference in pro-
duction is then easily noticed also. With
the hoppers full of grain there will be no
eggs. Change the food entirely, leaving
the graf out of the ration. and the hens
will respond to the change and make a
large difference in the number of eggs.
WHOLESALE LICE SLAUGHTER.
L noticed in the January number of the
Poultry Keeper an article on killing lice
wholesale. One person thinks it is too
much trouble to grease five or six hundred
hens with lard, which you recommend, but
suppose we tell him what we did in olden
times; we made the hens grease themselves
with much success.
Take lard, or grease of any kind, grease
the perch, but not at morning, because the
hens will eat it, but at evening before
roosting time. Grease well all the poles.
The hen will soon have her feet greasy,
and as soon as lice move or bit up goes
the foot, and In this way she does the work
SO we'll that by the time you grease them
three or four times every four days, the
hen will be greasd all over, except perhaps
small place at the back end of the breast
bone Lice can't travel in fat. This rule
always worked well, but when we ex-
change stock we sometimes get what we
do not want in this way. I had two fine
bred cockeres; one became droopy and
grew sick very suddenly. On examination
l discovered that he had lice. He droop-
ed, could not eat, had blood at the root
of his feathers, and was full of lice. I
applied the remedy. In three days time
he walked with the others; in six days
he was able to go to work. A ne!ghbor
informed me that her hens had quit lay
ing. 1 said perhaps they had lice, at which
she became very indignant but in due
time there was a clean sweep of the hen
house made and lice were discovered
HOW HE GOT LICE OFF THE FOWLS.
1 have been a subscriber to the Poultry
Keeper one year, and 1 think that / know
more about poultry than I did before I
became a subscriber to it, and much of my
information has been CLEANED from reading
the experience of others who have the
privilege of having their say in the paper.
So for the benefit of those similarly sit
uated I will tell how 1 completely eradi-
Gated the biggest crop of lice of the large
kind I ever saw on lot of fowls. l took
pound of smoking tobacco and put it in
50 pound lard tub, poured on about two
quarts of hot water, covered it up and let
1t stand over night The next day being
a warm one l filled up the tub within a
few inches of the top, with warm water,
then l took each fowl singly and dipped
them into the soup up to where they part
their back hair, or to be exact, up to their
eyes, letting them get thoroughly soaked
with it, then lifted them out and let them
drain. I served every one the same and
l can say that I completely cleaned out
the lice and did not hurt my fowls in
the least. They all did well after it, and
at present have not got louise Of any
kind whatever on them. The pound of
tobacco was sufficient for 60 fowls the
number 1 dipped. I filled the tub up with
warm water the second time after l had
dipped about 80 of them.
DON'T DO THREAD.
w. w. Kulp pointedly shows, in few
words, how easily one can entail much
labor upon themselves by the simplest
methods. In a brief letter to US he calls
attention to few matters which are some
times the key to loss or success He says:
1T is likely you have bought an incuba-
tor, or perhaps made one. They are SO
we'll made nowadays that good eggs will
hatch, and it is likely you had a good
hatch. You have put in 100, 200 eggs or
whatever the machine holds, and Matched
| from SO to so per cent of all the eggs. Now,
| do you think I can put $50 eggs in my 100
egg machine so that by careful attention
| can hatch them? This has been the rea-
| soning of a neighbor. His first hatch was
! good. He then put 140 eggs in a 1O0-ege
machine, one of the best, if not the best in
the world, the result being about 40 chicks
| If this were the only example of the kind
| it would not pay to write about it, but
| find it is a common temptation to beginners
| to crowd. Don't do it; remember that
| nearly all machines top heat, and one
egg on top of the others is much too hot
| as the heat increases rapidly as you near
| the tank. The same condition exists in
| the breeders and yards Crowded, bare
| yards, and poor, stunted stock. A little
well done and you have a profit Crowd
| and labor is-lost, money is lost, and grit is
| gone. Watch your f1ocks when you feed
| If you bright, red-headed pulet swal-
| lowing as if trying to swallowing he,
| tongue, catch her and look in her mouth
| She has taken cold and her tongue is swell.
| ing, and canker spots are showing Re.
| move to separate building and treat as
| you think best. But if you handle a bird
| that is sick, wash your hands before goine
| to others, or handling their feed If you
! go into the poultry hospital have a box OF