The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-26
FEEDING ron EGGS.

FEFD1NG FoR EGGS.
In the feeding of fowls we should
consider the object to te obtained
whether it be for market, for eggs, or
for show II fowl is eating too much
fattening food, she will not lay well.
The best time to feed soft food is in
the morning, and it should be hot and
stimulating. Do not feed them on the
ground, and do not allow the pans
from which they feed to become
soured and filthy. Give them suii.
cient for one meal and no more at q
time. Rather let them go little
hungry and make them scratch, than
have them NOPE around ard become
lazy and idle. Leghorns seldom be-
come too fat, being active and vigor-
Gus, but the large breeds, being more
indolent, keep themselves rather quiet
and soon become too fat. 1t is easy
to keep them within bounds by Judi.
cious feeding.
Grain in excess should not be given,
while bulk may be allowed in the
shape of vegetables and green food.
There are many ways of preparing
cheap and nourishing foods which
contain all the elements OF the eggs.
A piece of liver or meat scraps is
boiled to pieces in water. While
boiling add to gallon of water pint
of soaked beans and the same OF lin.
seed meal. When the whole is cooked
thicken with bran, middlings, ground
oats or corn meal. Add the meal, ETC.,
until the mess has thickened to stiff
dough. If milk be convenient it may
be scalded, either curds, buttermilk
or sweet skimmilk, and the bran, ETC.,
added. Chopped clover may be added,
turnips, carrots and potatoes also.
When green stuff is not procurable, a
few onions or cabbages, chopped, may
be added; also whatever scraps come
from the kitchen of fish, potato
parings, scraps of fat, etc. When no
green food is convenient, good clover
hay is chopped fine and stepped in
water over night. Next MOI ming heat
the water and add any of the above.
We buy scraps of meat and run it
through the sausage machine with
young rye, grass or clover. This gives
| excellent results.
All soft food should be salt, but con-
diments, such as red pepper, ginger,
etc., should be fed sparingly. Once
or twice week is often enough. The
best tonic is constant change of diet,
which promotes a regularity in the
system, always provided the food is
sound and wholesome. At night grain
must be fed.
There are many complaints that
fowls do not lay, even when we'll fed
and comfortably housed, but this is
due to not allowing them the proper
kind, or from feeding too much. 1t
is necessary to study the habits of each
breed, in order to know Just what to
do; the knowledge that is gained by
close study and practical experience
is valuable to the poulterer. Charcoal
should be fed to fowls occasionally,
or broken up and placed where the
fowls can get at it, as no one thing is
more conducive to health also broken
oyster or clam shells, lime or old plas-
tering, should be supplied in abun.
dance for material for egg shells.
OF course fresh, pure water is an
other essential to success in producing
eggs. Another essential is lime, in
the shape of whitewasb, and those who
use it literally are the ones who keep
their flock healthy and cleanly. To
render whitewash more effective in
dislodging or destroying lice and 9th.
er parasite nuisances, the addition OF
little carbolic acid is invaluable, for
scarcely anything else seems so dis
tasteful to the vermin. Air-slaked
lime should be occasionally scattered
over the floor of the chicken house to
remove all unpleasant and unheslthful
odors. The care bestowed on poultry
is not lost, as fowls appreciate kind,
ness the better the care and the more
varied the food, the better the results
and the more profitable they will be
for the owner.-American Agricultur,
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