The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-12-15
POULTRY WASTE

no system of feeding. A. particu-
lar kind of grain is fed dav after
Jay without change or variation
III any manner, and the fowls an.
parently thrive on such diet, eat all
OF the food, leaving none to be
wasted, but the poultryman does
not sec the waste of eggs that &C.
ours simply because the hens are
unable to produce them on account
OF a lack of certain elements that
are not contained in the food al
lowed. A little consideration given
the matter of feeding, though it
might lead to slight increase in
expenditure, would add much more
to the receipts.
Neglect to repair the poultry house
SO as to render it comfortable for
the hens, leads to waste, and a
rapid one, because it is seldom no.
tlced until much damage is done.
The streams of air call for more
food to supply the warmth of body,
and the poultryman's economy in
attempting to make the old house
DO service without necessary repairs,
wastes his food, his labor, and his
prospective supply of eggs. The
neglect to do his part calls for a
neglect by the hens, and he is the
one who must foot the losses. I'm
perfect preparations for supplying
the food and water, and failure to
clean the houses, are also sources
of waste.
Attempting to make the scrub
hens pay is kind of waste that is
in no manner excusable, for each
years experience teaches the differ.
ence between good and inferior
stock by simple comparison with
the fowls in the yard of some more
enterprising neighbor. To waste
the time on scrub hens ends in dis
gust after a short time, the breeder
being discouraged over results that
should have been better, and which
he ascribes to the business, when in
fact his own wilfu, waste of time
and food, by system of extrava-
CANT economy, has entailed loss.
There is waste in not procuring
that which saves time, labor and
food, and every ounce of food saved
or time that would be lost, is so
much on the profit side of the &C.
counts, and is equivalent to actual
cash received, no matter in what
shape it may be.
In the matter Of feeding, let lie
look at methods, and endeavor to
draw some conclusion in regard to
the causes of failure. When the
hens do not lay there is certainly a
cause. but so MANY causes are in
the way that to select the particular
one is a difficult undertaking, as it
demands not only practical exper-
fence, but considerable theOrizing.
Leaving aside the fact that fowl
may be sick or not properly housed,
the main consideration is its con-
dition. The kind of food to be
supplied depends on the bodily con-
dition of the fowl, and the hardest
part of the work of management is
to properly observe each fowl in or
der to Judge of its condition, and
thus learn how to feed for eggs.
TO feed a fowl for market is very
simple, but as the laying hen is a
producer, like the COW, the object in
giving her a place on the farm is
not so much in making her valuable
in the amount of meat on her body
as to have her produce eggs. When
the attempt is made to have the
hen produce both meat and eggs,
she will fail as producer; but as she
is a meat producer and an egg pro-
Queer, the skill of deriving the one
or the other lies with the breeder,
and the work of the hen will be &C
cording to his management. The
farmer knows that an egg is almost
complete in itself. This fact is
made plain because he knows that
the egg will bring forth live chick,
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