The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-08
THE BEST FOOD FOR EEG PRO
DIECTION.

DOOlIOl.
1t is generally agreed when among
poultrymen that a proportion OF the
food of fowls in heterogeneous form
helps in the production OF winter
eggs. This has also been my personal
experience When by the reddening
Of their combs and the peculiar cry
indicating the approach of the laying
season is in evidence, then begin the
feeding of meat in some form, ID
pretty liberal quantity, as often as ey-
cry other day. The fine beef scraps,
so commonly sold for this purpose, l
have always had on hand, and have
fed occasionally when out OF sweeter
material, but have never liked them
because of their disagreeable smell,
and the half belief that they favored
the eggs, matter l need be particular
about, as new-laid eggs make part or
my breakfast the year round
I read, however, in bulletin OF the
West Virginia Experiment Station
that a careful test has proved that the
beef scraps obtained. from Chicago
are better for egg production than
were ground fresh meat and bones.
have generally fed my meat in the
form of hogs harslets, cooked and
chopped up have seen them hung
up in the coop raw, to DE picked at
as wanted by the fowls, but mine will
not eat them that way. The liver they
don't care much about.
A few winters ago young fellow
drove through the town, once or twice
a week, selling fine chopped meat at
quite reasonable figure. My harslet
formerly cost me fifty cents a dozen,
but now 81. AS the fertilizer manu-
facturers sell the meat constituent in
them at less than l " cents per pound
after the cost of manufacturing it into
| that form, where it must weigh much
| less than in its raw state, inf that
| they would make as much on it II sold
at a cent pound as it comes from
the animal. If so, why is there not
| a good chance for quite business
| for any enterprising young fellow in
any of the towns adjoining such fac
tories to buy, grind up and sell such
meat in the cold season to those who
keep hens in mis- vicinity? l should
suppose he might easily double his
money and still further increase his
income by carrying in his cart at the
same time other poultry supplies, add
| ing also a few well-established medi-
cinal remedies, and, if he be ambi-
tious to make the most of lis busi-
ness, let him make himself neces-
sity to the community by knowing
more than they do of poultry ailments
and how to treat them.
When a younger man 1 gave a bag
of meal for the carcass of a large
horse, killed by accident. This | cut
up. packed in snow, and fed, with
such good result that my little flock
averaged through the cold season
threefourths as many eggs as there
were fowls, one day laying one more
egg than there were fowls, the extra
egg, as is always the case in such
| rare instances, being a soft-shelled
one, the shell not having time to form
upon it.
The best results that / have ever
known in egg production were obtain
| ed by two poultrymen residing in my
vicinity who kept poultry on a large
scale, one of them between two and
three thousand hens. Each OF these
| for heterogeneous food fed fresh fish
waste, the trimmings and waste fish
from city markets. They cooked be-
flooding feeding one of them with
waste onions. / was told by a clerk
in the store that bought the eggs, that
purchasers sometimes complained OF
their unpleasant flavor, but whether
this was caused by the onions or hsn
never learned. l took occasion
awhile ago while in Boston to inquire
about the waste. / learned that a
few of the larger establishments made
as much as two barrels a day, and
that it is removed by city teamsters
like other waste material. As it can
be conveyed by barrels having screw
alright heads, which will prevent the
escape of any odor, should suppose
that for small cost beyond that OF
transportation it might be purchased
by the poultry raisers of the surround
ing towns.-J. ]. H. Gregory, in The
Massachusetts, Pfoughman.