Middletown transcript., 1911-11-25
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

price OF Wn0i6 crate.
The egg should be perfect in shape,
with fresh clean appearance.
Fowls that are still heavy in molt
should be given rich oil ration.
The money in the poultry business is
made most often from the eggs.
Wheat coarse cracked corn, and oats
are the ideal summer feeds.
Feeding too much corn and barley is
responsible for much liver trouble.
The breed and strain have something
to do with the size of the eggs.
Remember to take good care OF the SOW.
Watch her closely for the little pigs have
nothing else to depend upon except their
mothers milk until they are three or four
weeks old.
Don't wait until the busy times next
spring to clean up your garden, but start
this fall after the crops are out of the way
to get everything in readiness for early
spring work.
The quality of water has much to do
with the quality of milk, the quality Of
eggs as we'll as the healthfulness of the
stock that uses it.
The best time to cut corn for late fall or
winter feed is just as soon as the ears are
we'll dented and when few of the leaves
begin to change color.
The custom of serving turkey in the
American home as the nucleus of the
Christmas feast islinked with the roman
tic DAYS when the red man roamed Vir.
ginia.
II certain fowls do not respond to good |
treatment, kill them or sell them at once. |
Turkeys should be raised on fresh |
ground each year. Diseased birds should |
be burned.
Full fed hens, having a well balanced |
ration, will lay larger eggs than hens on
stinted feed.
Look after the roofs of the houses that
they will not leak when the fall and win.
ter rains come.
Care is necessary to maintain the favor
in choice egg when il ia not eaten "a |
coon as laid.
Some strains of Plymouth Rocks are
particularly noticeable for the large size |
of their eggs.
Hens with plenty Of exercise and com.
Portable surroundings lay heavier eggs
than those in restricted quarters.
Lack OF grit and green food cause a |
sluggish action of the gizzgad and intes.
tines Therefore, give plenty of green
food.
While it may not be possible to entirely |
free the fowls from lice, they may be kept |
practically free with proper care and at.
tention.
II you compel her to take what she
doesn't want or take nothing, why OF |
course she will take what you provide,
rather than starve to death, but she won't |
lay as many eggs.
Therefore We like the hopper method
Of feeding. We always provide self.
feeder hung OH the wall just bigh enough
go the hens can eat what they want with
out wasting it on the floor.
A bet.enmethod is to provide a plat
form Is inches or SO above the floor SO
the fowl can jump up and down for the
feed and water they desire, and then go
back to the litter to work for the grain
that is scattered in it.
In one apartment of the self feeder is
grit; another, charcoal; another, oyster
shells; another equal parts OF finely crack
ed corn wheat barley and oats; another,
beef-scrsps; in stiIl another is placed dry
bran.
You might think that the hens will eat
too much, but they won't; they will eat
nniy what they want.
Scatter the whole grain, such as wheat
barley and corn 10 the litter. Feed them
whole corn at night, especially on cool
nights. They need cropful to keep up
The bodily heat overnight.
Give them table scraps and green food
1t noon. For green Iood We use cabbagea
nangel.wurtzrls, sugar beets, chopped
apples, etc. Onions are also relished, but
hey are liable to favor the eggs.
Fowls should have plenty Of fresh va
Ter, and We never warm is. They like a
;ool fresh drink the same as We do.
Provide dust bath so they may help
% rid themselves Of lice. Use plenty Of
liquid louse killer and to keep she whole
pen scrupulously clean.
II a variety of food lie given there is no
iced of fear abou. plenty of eggs. Do not
eed whole grain in hoppers. Only the
ground food, beef.scraps and bran is fed
here.
We must fight the encroachment of the
sutsers on our hillside farms as we fight
seeds. Both can be held in check and
,iten entirely eliminated. Il
Tie siIo should be much larger at The
op than as the bottom, 50 thatthe more
he silage settles the tighter it becomes.
There is no better iced Tor young pigs
ban fresh skinned milk Its also q
good supplementary feed for brood soWs