The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-04-08
POINTS FOR PoULTRYMA!N.

green cut bone, blood meal or chop
ped raw beef will take the place of
The bugs and worms they pick up dur
Ing the summer, but something must
also be provided to take the place
pf the tender blades of grass picked
here and there. Grains are concen-
Erated in themselves to form the
whole diet. The starch in them be-
Comes pasty and sticky after becom-
ing moist and will not move along
easily through the fowls peculiarly
formed alimentary canal unless there
Is some bulky substance mixed with
The food In fact, it requires very
much less food If bulky green foods
Of some kind are fed regularly and,
Of course, they are much cheaper.
AT first thought it would seem al
most impossible to have a supply of
green food during the winter with
out great cost, but this need not be
the case. There are several different
ways OF supplying this part of the ra-
ton. Apple parings and cabbage
leaves, which would otherwise be
wasted in the kitchen can be chopped
dp, with a vegetable cutter in pieces
small enough for the fowls to swal-A
low, and they form an excellent sub
Heads Of cabbage may be hung up in
the scratching shed so the fowls will
be required to jump for them. This
also provides exercise. Care should
be taken, though, not to feed too
much cabbage, as it will faint the
eggs. If turnips are plentiful they
may also be fed in this manner. In
the last few years alfalfa has been
placed upon the market in the form
Of a bulky meal for poultry. A guam
tity Of the meal is scalded with hot
water the night before it is used.
It turns as green as grass as soon
as it is scalded, but it should be left
covered tightly for several hours.
It should then be mixed with the
mash food to form about a fourth Of
the quantity in bulk
Pure, clean clover hay is equally
good chopped up and. scalded and fed
ii this manner or bale of clover
hay may be left in some out-of-the-,
way place for the fowls when it will
be found the leaves will all soon be
picked from the stems. Then thes|
bale may be torn apart. It will sur
prise some to think of fowls eating
hay, but they will actually eat all the
leaves from the clover stems, SO
much do they relish bulky food. The
COW beat or mangle wurzel forms 2
very cheap and efficient green food
Tor poultry, but they can scarcely
ever be purchased on the market If
you want supply of green food for
your fowls next year sow a small
quantity of the seed along in July or
engage some farmer to grow some
FOR you. If you live in the suburbs
possibly there is dollhouse NEAR
which raises lettuse during the winter.
The waste leaves may be obtained at
small cost Sprouted oats makes an
other good form of green food for
winter USE The grain is sown thick
~ in sprouting box or tray and
kept at moderate temperature un-
til the young plants reach a height OF
twoSpr three inches.
The fifteen pullets owned by A. E.
Schulz. Of Richmond, reported as hav-
ing laid 24S eggs during December,
have repeated this record during
January by laying 244 eggs and dur
ing the first half of February laying
11S eggs. These fifteen hens have
been confined in a coop six by twelve
feet, and have only been let out of
doors six or seven days in the last
eleven weeks.
1ncubators and brooders should be
thoroughly overhauled and renovated
several days before using them. You
will probably find parts of the lamp
missing, tanks rusted through or
thermometer broken.
Hens should not be required to
Jump down. into the nest. If eggs are
IN the nest they are very likely to be
broken and the hen becomes an egg
eater. Nests should always have en-
frances from the front.
Reports of the domestication of the
wild mallard duck are being received,
and for some unaccountable reason |
they are becoming quite popular. At
the recent show held here there we're
more entries in this variety than all
other varieties of ducks combined.
The drake makes quite a striking APP
pearance, with his bright green me-
tallic head, narrow white ring about
his neck, blue gray body and dark
wings. The female is a beautiful
light brown, laced with dark brown.
It is. interesting to note how vastly
different the markings and shadings
are in the male and female, and how
true to type they breed.-Indianap-
oils News.
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS.
The Indian Runner duck was in