Milford chronicle., 1916-11-03

While it might possibly be true that
there are some few persons who keep
poultry through sheer love of the feath-
cry tribe, yet the great bulk of them aim
to make the fowls realize profit. In or
der to get a profit from the fowls it is
quite necessary that one get eggs. Poul-
! try, of course, is raised in many instances
primarily for purposes of meat, but there
is little or no profit to be derived from
chickens unless these same birds which
are being raised for meat also yield eggs,
and these, in most cases can be disposed
of at a fair figure.
In order, then, to get the most out of
poultry one must of necessity look to the
| production of eggs as one of the first re-
quisites, and in order to get the best re-
suits in the production of eggs balanced
grain ration is absolutely necessary.
The aim to get a heavy production of
eggs is not only confined to the person
who raises poultry from the standpoint
of utility, but from the fancy end as we'll
and while this is the aim, yet men are
often doomed to disappointment. This
disappointment is usually that of the man
who pays but little attention to the mat
ter of feeding, as this is, after all, the
primary cause for the lack of production
It is needless to say that it is next to
impossible to get as great production of
eggs during the fall and winter as is pos
sible in the spring, but then the output
can be materially increased if proper at |
tention is paid the various avenues of the |
industry. The most important end of
the Ioultry game as regards the produc-
ton of eggs is the method of feeding, |
but no matter how good this might be,
it must be followed consistently if results
are to be expected.
Under ordinary conditions the eggs
laid during the spring and summer are
larger and finer in appearance than those
of fall and winter, but this can be offset
to a large extent if the hens are provided
with the necessary food to make fine
eggs.
Such food is best known to poultrymen
as living food, and this means that part
Of the hens natural rations which is |
picked from our mother earth and COM /
Drises insects, worms and grasses of every I
Known sort. They contain protein in the I
most beneficial forms, aud this goes to !
orm the albumen of which the egg is !
argely made up. (
As it is impossible for the hens to get {
his supply during the winter, when for t
he most part they are in confinement, [
his food is naturally cut off, and the re- l
ult is that the egg yield is either termi- /
lated or the eggs that are laid are inferior
n quality. AS l have already said, it is a
ext to impossible to bring the winter q
gg yield up to that of the spring yet b
he yield may be materially increased I
uring this period by supplying the hens Il
nth foods which are as near to natures e
upply as it is possible for us to get. g
In order then to get a liberal quantity b
{ eggs during the cold or winter months, b
'hen eggs are scarce and only to be had n
t a premium, it is necessary to provide u
he hens with sufficient food, to sustain Ii
er system, and in addition, to make h
ggs. S,
The idea of supplying good feed and b
lenty of it is all right, so far as it goes, a
ut this alone availeth nothing unless it a
an be properly assimulated and turned 81
ito the various portions constituting the r,
gg. After years of study and the in
estment of much money on experiments
18th many and various kinds of foods, it
as been learned that the best results en-
he from the feeding of balanced ration. Il
here are many persons interested, in a I
ay, in poultry who look upon a bal y
need ration as simply supplying the W
owls with large quantities of all kinds of n
rain, without any regard to what they
lntain. C
This method is dead wrong and will ei
oell failure for the man who follows it. k
UGH feeding is only conglomeration. Il
sually a mixture of all the different p
inds of seeds it is possible to procure. Il
The real idea of balanced grain ration "
a mixture of those particular kinds of tc
rain which consist of and furnish the
ems with protein, carbohydrates and
her necessary materials to supply their g..
-ery demand. Some grains contain more -, -
rotein than others, and likewise carbo- -
ydrates. This means that more than r.
lie and less of the other kinds must be al
sed in the mixture in order to supply
lie hens needs.
There are many and varied formulas of Of
danced grain rations, some of which N