The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-18
~ ISAAC L. TOTEM.

oY JSAAN l.. TOTEM.
The recent zero weather was not
very conducive to the health of those
| fowls that roost in the shade of a
| whip on a binder reel in a wind-swent
tool shed
1t surely does effect their laying pro-
| rensities.
Most chickens that are housed in
the above manner do greater portion
OF their laying on their backs when
the thermometer mercury roos,s on
lerch No. is
VI course. there isn't any one in this
| community that could possibly be so
heartless as to let their poultry or 9th
| or farm animals SILVER and freeze ont
, in the fury of the breeze while they sit
by the fire toastinG their shins and
studying their Sunday school lessons.
For some reason though, many farm
ers reported that they had several
chickens frozen on that cold Sunday
morning Nov. ~; but, of course. no
one would ever think of having such
cold weather at that early date.
That early warning, no doubt, caus-
ed every poultry raiser to get busy and
provide comfortable quarters for the
remaining portion of the flock, conse-
| 4uently We do not look for any reports
now OF poultry being frozen because of
| the lack of comfortable housing.
All of us, however are not agreed
on that subject of what is meant by
comfortable housing"
Maybe all Of us are right. who
knows?
1t is quite strange, though, that one
neighbours hens are laying we'll while
another neighbours hens are not laying
at all.
| Perhaps this may be due to the kind
Of poultry, or the strain, or the care
and not to the neutrality-suspicious.,
again. This subject, nevertheless, like
Mark Twain's rat hole, will bear look
ing into.
| If the hens are not laying as we'll
as they should and the fault is found
to be in the kind of class, or in a GER
tain strain, it would be good idea to
keep in mind the fact that there will
be right classy poultry show at the
*. of P. temple, Richmond, Ind, Jan.
"a, 25, 26 and q.
At this show one should be able to
find something that would suit as far
as class, kind and strain goes, at least.
If the hens are not laying and the
fault is due to the lack of proper care
and feeding, then of course, that is
something else again.
! There are several good rations sug-
Fested for the laying hens, and some
of us will no doubt have the best sue.
cess with one kind of ration, while 9TH
crs will get the best results from an.
other ration.
| Our affable instructor at the corn
school last year, Otis Crane, said the
following in regard to feeding poultry
for egg productions:
| ITO properly feed poultry, it is nee
essary to understand something about
the composition of foods and the
amount required for different purpos-
es.
There are two important elements
in our common foods to be consider
ed: protein and carbohydrates. Pro
TEN is required in the formation of
lean meat, white of EGGS, feathers,
| Halls, CT 'CcICId, willie CdTDOnyOT0J0S
are used to keep up the required heat,
supply energy,) form fat and make the
yolk of the egg.
| by experiment it has been shown
that food suited for egg production
should have nutritive ratio of about
I of protein to As of carbohydrates"
| In as much as corn has a nutritive
ratio of of protein to SO of carbohy.
drates it will be seen that when it is
fed alone it is too fattening. To bal
ance the ration it will be necessary to
feed something that is rich in protein
beef scraps, fresh cut bones, skim
med milk-any of these will help Won
derfully.
! Perhaps the best advice that can be
given in connection with the care of
hens to make them lay during the win
ter season is to say that the best re-
suits will be obtained when We dupli-
cate as near as possible, the summer
time conditions.