The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-04-16
POINTS FOR PoULTWMAN.

bASch loVu along Win lhelf grain ana
meat food during the winter If many
eggs are expected. Beef scraps,
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 20 take tho place
OF the tender blades OF srass clicked
here and there. Grains arc Concen-
trated in themselves TO form the
whole diet. The starch in them be-
comes pasty and sticky after becCm-
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 Goods
OF some kind are fed regularly and,
OF course, they are much cheSpeT
At first thought It would seem al
most impossible to have 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 che ra-
ton. Apple parings and cabbage
leaves which would otherwise be
wasted in the kitchen can be chopped
UP with a vegetable cutter in pieces
small enough for the fowls tp swat
low, and they form an excellent sub
stitute for the grasses Of a7mmer.
Heads OF cabbage may be hung up In
the scratching shed so the foNls VIII
be required to jump for them. This
also provides exercise. Care should
be taken, though, not to feed too
much cabbage, as 1t will taint 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 1t ~ used.
II turns as green as grass as soon
as it is scalded, but it should be lett
covered tightly for severa! hours
Tt should then be mixed with the
mash food to form about a fourth OF
the quantity in bulk.
Pure, clean clover hay ~ equally
good chopped up and scalded and ied
in this manner or a bale or clover
hay may be left in some Out-ot-the-
way place for the fowls when II VIII
be found the leaves will all soon De
picked from the stems. Then the
bale may be torn apart. II VIII sur
prise some to think of fowls eating
hay, but they will actually cat an the
leaves from the clover stems, so
much do they relish bulky food. me
cow beat or mangle wurZel forms
very cheap and efficient green 1000
for poultry, but they can scarcely
ever be purchased on the market. II
you want a supply Of green food TOT
your fowls next year SOW smali
quantity OF the seed along In July OF
engage some farmer TO grow some
for you. If you live in the suburbs
possibly there Is a dollhouse near
which raises lettuse during tho winter.
The waste leaves may be obtained at
small cost. Sprouted Data makes an
other good form OF green food Tor
winter use The grain Is sown thlcK-
Nv IN a sprouting box or tray ana
kent at a moderate temperature un-
I'll the young plants reach a height OF
two or three inches.
The fifteen pullets owned by A, ~
schuh. OF Richmond, reported as nav
ing laid PAS eggs during December
have repeated this record during
January by laying 244 eggs and our
ine the first half OF February laying
IFS eggs. These fifteen hens nave
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.
Incubators and brooders should be