Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-11-27
CHEAP POULTRY FEED
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. HAS AD-
VANTAGEs OVER FARMER.
Much Waste In Cities In Form Of Gar
base, Stale Bread, Buttermilk and
Skim Milk Available at Very
Low Prices.
(By ISAAC MOTES.)

(By ISAAC MOTES.)
While the farmer-poultryman at
distance from the city has some ad-
vantages over the near-city poultry
man, the latter Is not as badly handi-
capped on his home acre as you might
think.
The farmer can, OF course, raise
most Of his feed, and his chickens
have plenty of room to rustic their
foods in the fields, orchards, pasture
and barnyard, but on the other hand
the suburban poltryman Is much
closer to market and can take advan-
tage Of rush orders from merchants
either for eggs or dressed poultry. and
he is thus in position to get top mar.
ket prices for the product OF his flocks.
And the nearcity poultryman can
get cheap feed II he knows how, for
there is so much waste in cities in the
form Of garbage, stale bread, butter
milk and skim milk. In city con-
tanning a number OF bakeries a poul.
tryman can get large quantities of stale
bread merely for hauling 1t away, or
II he pays for 1t, 1t will be only a
nominal sum.
have in mind now woman In my
city who owns restaurant, not
very large one, either. She also has
chicken farm about l2 miles from the
city. and she sends out to the farm
once week from six to ten potato
sacks OF waste bread for her chickens
bread which but for utilizing 1t thus
would be thrown away. The result is
that she makes big profit on the
chickens and eggs she sells.
This bread is exceedingly fine for
chickens, especially when soaked in
warm skim milk, slightly sweetened
And It is as good for fattening chick
ems as for brood hens and young chick
ems. II Is also fine for hogs.
Another kind OF chicken feed which
the near-city poultryman can get ir
large quantities is fresh buttermilk II
, cities where there are creameries Of
. butter companies.
A Such companies sell great deal o
-, buttermilk, but nothing like as mucl
!. as they could sell. and great deal o
, II Is turned into the sewer, so II
a poultryman with 200 or 300 chicken
q wished to buy 1t in say five-gallon lot
II he would be able to get 1t very cheaI
ly-perhaps for five cents gallon, fo
v. the buttermaker would surely prefe
Il. selling Il even at this price to throw
n ing 1t away.
Id This buttermilk is especially goo
o. for chickens cooped up to fatten Il
OF market, for the acid In the milk
10 good for their digestion in the wint'
er when they cannot get green stun. al
m also while they are cooped up whel
I'd they cannot take exercise.
e. Very few Thugs are as fattening |
,i. slightly sour milk curds, sweetene
rs heated to blood heat and with son
or refuse grease or meat drippings fro
in the kitchen added. Such fat.makii
I'd food is better for fattening chicken
or however. than for hens with broods.
Mt Another advantage the small po,
tryman has near the city Is that
G, is accessible to dairies where he c.
get skim milk from separators, whit
is also exceedingly good for fattenii
u chickens, In making up mashes OF d
N, ferent kinds. The butter compani
III have a great deal Of It for sale. al