Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-11-14
NOW FOR EGGS.

Wo nave uesctiutd tuht o'tbu Wlnu
and waterproof coop, with those mics
early pullets In tho same. We must
now look around aud sec how we can
feed those pullols and make them
think II IL perpetual summer, rs they
are now protected from the chilling
blast Of winter. We must keep them
In robust health, hut be- careful we Dc
not make them too fat--fat fowls don'i
lay cggs; the spit or pot lie the place fol
them.
To leave out all technical terms OF
the chemist and scientist, snd come
down TO plain English, our fowls mus,
have animal and vegetable food, gril
and water, and than evenly balanced.
Now, what constitutes the animal
food OF tho fowl In summer? SIugs,
worms and flies In their various forms.
But We cannot preserve or bottle up
HES or worms, aud We must find q sub
sutute. We md II In meat gristle and
bone, oil cake meal, tuniiower seeds,
etc. The fresh bones IN theit natural
state cannot be- utilized by the Heath.
cred tribe, hut thanks 10 the genius OF
cur American mechanics n simple
machine called . bone mill has been
devised whereby we can take this waste
material anu convert II Into the incest
Kind OF food for oven the smallest Of
little chickens, sud one pgund OF fresh
bone cut up by tue machines contains
VtFuffINHt NNHNAElaI a "a
twenty pounds OF wheat.
Now don't think that the preparing
OF this boue 10 the work OF n boy Of 10
or IL years Of age, because II l. not. IL
IL hard work, but eggs IN winter don't
come down with the snowfiakes and
" you expect eggs at Christmas or
New Years you must work for the ~.
rho bone mill or cutter has made Il
pos,ibloto work up great dssl Of waste
material; In fact, with the exception
Of the hide, we can take the bone mill
and convert tue whole animal into
iust tho food lin part) that our
ieathered friends want; not even the
blood and intestiHss, when washed
clean OF their Nth, need be wasted.
With the bone mill we can cut up
waste vegetables and dried fruit that
may have become wOTmy and this
will be relished by our fowls In the
winter time TO the same extent AZ our
bottled ana canned fruit aud nice
green apples are In our families. Aud
right here let mo admonish You to
procure q variety OF vegetables OF
all kinda for the fowls. They enjoy
them cooked or raw, cut up Into small
pieoes. IL you don'G think so, Just 40
out on a wintTy day anu sweep away
the snow from given space, take "a
cabbage aud cut II into small pieces
aud throw II down TO your fowls And
sec how they will fall over each other
with delight 10 secure n small msrsel
OF any thing you may oder them In
tho fTuiI or vegetable line. Have n
few beets or carrots 10 lay In y our coops
or any place where they will not freeze
aud lot your chickens eat them. They
viii stock thom with their beaks until
there IL nothing but the outside left.
Hang up In the ooopa heads OF cabbage,
Just high enough 10 the fowls will
have ~ Jump TO secure piece; IL will
give them exercise anu keep thom
warm. (Rsmember that exercise with
proper food Ia the key note of oggs.)
Don'l forget that that forage plant
which has done so much u redeem
the waste places OF UtAh, known rs
luoern or alfalfa, Ia one OF the best OF
foods for the feathered tribe, but not In
the shape that tho COW or ths horse
uses n; you who have fodder cutters,
cut it up Into quat,cT-inoh lengths; II
you have no such machine gather the
leaves from your hoTses' Managers,
barn noors or hHy stacks. Don'tthTow
that cut lucern or leaves 10 fowls as
you would grain, because II you do
you will waste nine-tontbs Of IL. Your
chickens don't take To 1t In that Way,
but steam II anu incorporate In the
morning feed.
Tue oIher vegetable matter We give
TO the fowls, known Ra uTy feed, are
the several grains, wheat, OAlt, barley
aud corn; the three iiul are the STAPLE,
NJ corn practically speaking should not
DO used only for certain purposes.
Now, as 10 water, one OF the grand
essentials which must DO In abundance
and OF the putsst kind. D0a't think
that 10 waite. your chickens once a
week In winter Is sufficient, because
chickens have no tools TO break Ice
and mske II 40 they eau use It. IL you
can have running stream that your
fowls can 10 10 without too much ex.
Ioiute, that Is lbe Ideal; but In tho ab.
svnce OF that, see that they have
water moTnlhg aud Afternoon. Mine
have warm water In q morning anu
their drinking vessels emptloi ut
night; In the drinking vessels put
clean rusty nails OF IRON Into the
wAtst-lt will act asa tOulU,
VIII take up more Of the details,