The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-11
Home and Farm

will furnish the poultry just the nutri-
ment required to develop whatever
particular product that may be desir-
ed, without the poultry having to d.
gest lot of waste material that they
have no immediate use for. As the
old saying goes, Its just what you
put into thing as to what you take
out" This saying Is certainly true
In the poultry industry, as hens are
only capable of developing eggs or
meat to that capacity in accordance
with the material they have to work
with. Nature has not given them the
power OF converting what they eat
into any element different from the
element the feed actually contains.
To illustrate the matter in a plain
way, suppOsing that 100 hens were
fed one bushel of corn, which is a fair
days ration for that number. The
bushel Of corn alone does not contain
lime or protein enough to develop
over 81 eggs, which would be only
70 eggs per hen In year, but it con-
tains fat forming material enough for
$40 hens for one day, or as much
again as 100 hens should have for
best results. Now as the whole food
stun must be digestei before the egg
producing material is available for the
development of the eggs, it is plain to
be seen that the energy of the diges-
tive organs when fed on corn ra-
ton entirely is taxed to about double
the capacity they should be, which
means loss to the raiser of no less
than SO cents per hen in a year. A
ration for the winter months that will
be found very satisfactory is as fol-
lows: Morning feed. kaffir corn one
part. oats nineteen parts, one quart
to fifteen hens, fed in a deep litter.
Noon feed, wheat bran three parts,
clover or alfalfa meal one part
ground beef scrap two parts, one
quart to fifteen hens, fed dry in
troughs. Night feed, wheat and yell
low corn equal parts, ii quarts to
fifteen hers, fed in litter. My reasons
for feeding dry feed and feeding it
at MONDAY are, as the middle of the
day is generally the most comfortable
part of the day, feed that does not re-
quire much exercise to eat should be
fed at that time. The food being dry
they cannot be greedy in eating it,
they have to eat 1t SLOW This de-
velops power Of digestion that can
not be reached in any other way. BY
feeding the whole grains morning and
night in the litter. they have to work
hard to find it. This particular ex-
ercise develops heat and muscle, two
important qualities that must be
reached before they are in condition
to produce eggs. Hens standing
around idle in the cold are living at
the expense of the owner, when If
they were given the proper conditions
and plenty of work to do, they are
more productive than any other ami
NAL on the farm. A pratical ration
for young chicks should be similar to
that for the laying hens except the
beef scraps should be fed sparingly
until the chicks are six weeks old
The grains should be cracked fine and
all mixed together and fed dry. There
are several brands of poultry foods
on the market today that are a cor
rect balanced ration, and if fed ac-
cording to directions that come with
them they will be found very profit
able nvestment.-Poultry Advocate.
The CAPE WORM.
The dreaded cape worm has been
conspicuous by its absence this sea-