The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-11

slant during the daytime. Don't let
1t freeze or become exhausted, or the
egg crop will suffer.
SCIENTIFIC FEEDING. 4
Many farmers do not fully under
stand the terms used by those who
give directions for feeding, although
some farmers have made such, mat
tiers a study. A farmer may not
know the relative proportions Of the
several substances in foods, but he
should endeavor to learn by expert
ence what to give his flocks, what to
avoid, and how much and how often.
The two principal substances in food
desired for poultry are nitrogen (for
flesh, albumen, etc), and carbon (for
fat). The heterogeneous foods are corn,
rat meat, grease, rice, etc. If a hen
IS fat she needs no food excelling in
nat Hence, finely cut clover hay
scalded in the morning, with a table
spoonful of linsaed meal at night, is
better for egg production that grains.
Ii the hen is poor give grains at
night. All foods, however, contain
rat and also some nitrogen. It should
be borne in mind that the more quiet
and sluggish the disposition the less
corn or heating food is required. A
laying hen should never be very fat,
for the accumulation of fat is very
injurious to reproduction. If too rat
the hen may not lay; she becomes
egg-bound, breaks down, and soon
proves unproductive. Any fowls that
are active foragers and are laying
may be fed all they will eat but if
the hens are apparently in good
health, but do not lay, feed no corn,
give plenty of meat and allow bulky
food or they will fatten quickly II
fed heavily a hen will either lay or
fatten In a short time, and If the
hens are Asiatics and cease to lay the
feeding must be done cautiously. It
Is even better to get them down to
poor condition rather than permit
them to become too fat. An excellent
mode of feeding is to allow plenty of
bulky food, and to give each hen an
ounce of raw chopped meat in the
morning and whole oats at night. A
few grains of wheat or corn may be
scattered in litter, in order to induce
them to scratch, which will be bene-
fetal. Farm and Fireside.
POULTRY ON PRINCE EDWARD.
If you will look on the map and find
Prince Edward Island, Canada, you
will understand that it is a good way
up towards the much-discussed North
Pole. 1t is, however, an excellent
farming country. the climate being
tempered by the water around it and
the naturally strong soil being well
titled. Our Consul, Frank Deedmeyer,
gives a report of the goose industry
on the Island. He says that $4,000
geese were raised this past season,
alive to the United States. These
geese are located on goose farms in
Massachusetts near Boston, where
they are fattened and finally sent to
various markets. The average weight
of the geese is S1s pounds alive. and
the freight from the Island to Boston
is II cents bird. Farmers receive
from 80 to IS cents apiece for the
geese, and of course, when they are
sold to the ultimate consumer in the
American market the carcass will
bring So or more. There is an active
demand for goose fat by many people
who use it in preference to butter in
cooking. In addition to these live
geese some 10000 dressed geese were
also sent out of the Province and
these go to various markets.
Prince Edward Island is also COM
ing to be large turkey country, as
100000 of these birds were grown
there this year. Those not consumed
at home go to markets all the way
from Quebec to New York, and about
$4,000 birds were sent away. They
bring about s1.5O apiece to the pro-
Queer, so that this Island in the cor
ner of the hemisphere is stepping in
to the breach to supply the turkeys
which black-head and similar diseases
have driven away from parts of New
England-Rural New Yorker.
DISEASES OF FOWLS.
Most of the diseases that aff1ict
owls are the result of carelessness
and indifference on the mart of the