The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-07-01

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the following statement:
my experiments have demonstrated
these facts: A hen eats sixteen times
her own weight in one year; her eggs
in the year are six times her weight;
they bring 16 cents per pound; her
food costs 1 cent per pound, and her
yearly product is worth six times the
cost of her food"
Other authorities estimate that the
farm hen costs from AZ to SO cents a
year, the average being about 65 cents.
AS the farm separator system in
creases and the farmers succeed in
producing skim milk in the best pos
sible condition for feeding, they are
gradually awaking to an understand
ing of the Importance of the skim
milk question in cold cash.
1t becomes then a vital and import
ant point to determine what we will
feed the skim milk to. A certain num-
Der of calves we must and should
raise. Well handled, the skim milk
fed to nice grade heifer calves will
return fully double the money that it
will if fed to pigs. But we do not
need to raise pigs if it is more profit
able to raise poultry and feed our skim
milk to them instead. The figures
Mr.. Orr gives afford us guide lines for
study, and our readers will find it
profitable to consider them in connec-
ton with the disposition of their
skim milk
Some experiments by the Indiana
experiment station are pertinent to
this question: Two pens of ten chick
ems each were taken; the chickens
were from four to six weeks of age.
One pen was fed all the skim milk
they wanted; the other was fed none.
The grain fed consisted of two parts
of crushed corn, one part bran and
one part ground oats. They were
also fed cracked bone, cabbage and let
tuce. At the beginning of the ex-
pertinent, July II, the total weight of
one lot of chickens was only half
ounce greater than the other. On Sep
TENDER the result showed the skim
milk chickens ate considerable grain
than the others.
The chickens of the lot receiving no
skim milk, made an average weekly
gain of 2.62 ounces, while the lot that
were fed skim milk made a gain per
week of 4.46 ounces or over one-fOurth
of a pound This experiment will
serve we'll to show the comparative
difference caused by the skim milk.
The American White Wyandotte
club, of which Martin F. Delano, of
Millville, N. j., is secretary, offers
total of $235 in prizes to be awarded
exhibitors at the ST. Louis fair this
year, as determined by the best rec
ords made in the awards in the regu-
lar classes for white Wyandottes by
the official judge, provided each ex-
hibitor makes not less than two ex-
hibits in each section in which he
completes. On the same plan the
American Light Brahma club offers
silver cup for the best display of Light
Brahmas, also for the best display of
Light Brahma bantams. John Rum
bold, of Baltimore, Nd, is secretary
of this club.
The waste product from the manu-
facture of sugar of milk has been
found valuable as a poultry food, tests
showing a record of egg production
considerably exceeding the record
when the hens were fed on meat scrap.
This refuse product is said to analyze
fifty per cent protein, about fifteen per
cent of which is pure albumen, fif
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