The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10
CORNER FOR POULTRYMENI
Animal Foods for Poultry
BY ARTHUR r.. SCHROEDER

Poultry farming, like any other COM
mercial manipulation, depends largely
on the man behind the gun If he
thoroughly understands the business
and pays attention to all of the small
items. is careful and economical. there
Is slight doubt but the man will come
out at the large end of the horn when
the time for reckoning arrives. TO
know his business thoroughly he should
be well acquainted with the details of
his work. which is true especially when
we have reference to proper food. There
is no use to repeat all of the where
fore's and why's of the ingredients of
well balanced ration; that's an old
story. and IL told again. too soon may
find its way into the file without even
glance at the contents; so let il
suffice to say that protein is most i'm
portant, at the same time the most ex-
pensive of the poultry foods of today
Doctor Woods describes 1t as Complex
nftrogenous compound absolutely neces-
sary to health of poultry, There is
vegetable and animal protein. The for
mer is found IN grains and mill stuffs,
in fact, in anything we may feed the
latter is meat derived from any and all
sources.
How animal matter may differ from
the vegetable protein we do not know
but the latter will not completely take
the place of animal protein which is
the most valuable of all food elements,
is the best tissue builder and repairer
and contributes largely to the manu-
facture of eggs. Fed in excess. 1T is
convertible into fat and heat It's
wastes are very difficult to get rid of.
| besides the fact that the management
in such instance is poor and could be
greatly improved upon as far as real
economy can be practiced
Dried beef scraps, meat meal and all
sorts of undesira BILE fertilizers form
the principal source of our meat and
protein supply. There is plenty of it
IN the market, in fact too much for our
good, otherwise we would not be
handed lemon quite as often and
nave our order for meat arrive in an
other form. namely. decomposed horse
flesh, which probably has been stored
away (to improve with age) for the
last decade or two. But what are YOU
to do when you can not. to save vour
neck, buy anything better? You can
Kick like a Missourian native, growl
as much as you like. but to what BEN
eft? You have to take the dope as 1t
comes or go without it,@which is sim
ply out of the question We can not
blame the local dealers in the least. as
they handle the article as part Of their
business, but we should despise the
men who sack fertilizer and mark the
same poultry food" That Is true
have known an instance where a man
bought meat scraps for poultry and
the very first sack he fed killed s per
cent of the flock. Chemical analysis
has shown percentage OF arsenic the
impurity found in our commercial fer
haf ri
the caustic properties of arsenic de-
stroying the lining of the digestive or
gans and causing the tissue to dry and
remain SO indefinitely. White arsenic
is used by the taxidermists for this
very purpose. SO any one can draw his
own further conclusions.
Then again, if you are lucky to get
a lot of scraps that will stand the test
you are. even then, not buying that
which you are paying for-pure beef
scraps-not by. a long shot, Examine
a sample of it and you'll see how many
foreign substances 1t contains You
can not miss the hair and the bristle If
you are as blind as the beggar on
Market street. because that part Of
the contents is very conspicuous. being
thrown in there for good measure and
appearance Of real bargain. Look
again. All those particles that re-
semble dark brown glass represent hoof
and horn, the value of your money.
Isn't it fine? There is very much pro-
tein In this hoof and horn, true
enough, but not the Kind adapted to
poultry feeding. There are few houses
that carry in stock good meat and al
ways back up their guarantee of fresh
ness by making good on any sale OF
meat scraps that fails to come up to
their standard. And they do it, too.
you may depend on it. But how many :?
Your own experience Will tell you.
There are people who have lost a
goodly crop of youngsters on account of
poor meat; small percentage of the
loosers know where the trouble lay but
the average, 1t is safe to say, blamed
the mortality to diarrhoea, liver disor-
|ders, lice, etc. any old epidemic In fact
that a neighbor would advance as the
cause OF the trouble. If this class
OF poultry men would pay more at