The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-22
POULTRY DEPARTMENT
FEEDING FOR WINTER EGGS


experience is both lasting and cen
vincing and is far superior 70 an!
other. When 1 decided to so into tn
poultry business as an ayoeation il
life. I tried to pull myself together q
see what wanted and what to do.
thought the FIRST thing necessary wal
good, comfortable quarters for m,
fowls. / decided on the colony plan
and six neat new houses with gooC
yard to each fenced on were soor
erected. The next thing was the birds
to occupy these quarters. | was SC
green in the business did pot know
what wanted or what to buy. soon
purchased some good high grade stock
and went to work feeding them such
as / had about the place. l wanted
eggs and the question was what to
feed, and the great question was how
to get them. l read everything on the
question / could get and purchased
some fine books and eagerly read and
reread them and when ] got through
] was so thoroughly "bung-fuszled"
did not know what to do. ! took the
best of all had read and put 1t all
together and t',n used little COM
mon sense, ana ;fter all this is what
everyone needs in order to succeed
know some Of you will laugh when
tell you what I did and say, Now
wasn't he silly. You hold on and hear
the results before you criticise.
Now to the 'point:-I purchased from
the Southern Cooked Feed Co., Nash
vile, Tenn, lot of cooked horse feed,
such as they put on the market to feed
horses. This food is composed of va
rious grains cooked ground and thor
oughly mixed. place 100 lbs Of this
rood with 100 lbs or rich middiings
or wheat bran in a box, then / ID. OF
pulverized red pepper. " 10. pulverized
sulphur, 2 ms. fine table salt and
ms. Hess Poultry Panassaea and !
mix all together l store
it away In barrels for use,
Each morning | take one gallon of |
this mixture for rs fowls and moisten I
mot wet) it with boiling water and
feed in troughs Slated so the fowls
cannot get into 1t. 1t Is joy to see
how, eagerly the birds eat 1t. From
he same Company procured cooked /
scratch food Of various grains, high in
protein and scatter thin In litter at
noon and at evening. One hand full I,
It q time for each two fowls. About
,nce week after the birds go to
cost go in@the various houses and 4
eel the crops to see II the food Is |
bout right II the crop is very full I
nd hard I7lessen the evening, or noon Q
rain food. II the crop is fiabby | in {
rease it.. Once week give green
round bone, three his. for so hens. t
t all times give all the ground veg '
tables ! can procure about the place, d
UGH as cabbage, beets, turnips etc. |.
Clean water is kept ever before the &
irds. give 1t three times daily, 8
lightly warmed They like 1t best "
Lat way. Grit and ground oyster q
bells are placed in boxes tackled to n
he walls and they consume quantities y
1t. M n
Everything my birds consume Is per- Ct
city clean. The houses are kept "
can at AL times. b.
Now for the results. My stock is $
] young and some of them late in
ltched and | am getting from rs to
% OF nice, plump rich eggs Those
some pens give an egg for each pull
therein daily for few days. Can
u beat that? have two 100 egg W
cubatOrs running all the time. My be
ock Is healthy and the chicks are
rong and vigorous or
Give me cooked food for winter eggs in
d you can have the raw / would
t give my method for yours, as | am an
tisfied with 1t. | give no corn. be
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