The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-19
Aim to Lessen Expense and
 Waste Without Decreas- ing Your Efficiency.
Suggestions for Convert ing By-Products Into Money

NeVef De10re III the world WOrk naS so great attention been paid to utiliz- ing every atom of material so there may be no waste Waste lands'' will soon be an obsolete term; marshy tracts and arid deserts are being transformed into happy homes and prosperous farms. Man ufacturers are becoming millionaires by converting into valuable commercial ar- ticles what had hitherto been regarded as worthless; to illustrate-gasoline. a by product from oil which was formerly worthless product into blessing to mankind. At the Chicago packing houses they have the art of economy down so fine that it is said they utilize every part of the hog but the squeal.
 The poultry business has only recently risen from the obscurity of merely keep ing hens'' and has taken it's rightful place as properly qualified industry. We are a few paces behind in economies, but we are "comin'." There is much printed and said about poultry as fad, as a means of getting interested in out door life and of giving one some live interest outside of shop; but no prac- tical man or woman can remain inter- ested for any length of time in a fad that shows no profit. Somehow the chink of the silver is needed to keep enthusi- asm up to the proper level. So the man who is looking to poultry for his living and the one who is interested in it merely as a fad are both asking the same ques- tion: will it pay?
 The is eli mn alrc ha nv. penses less than the income and 1t will surely pay.
 FEED ECONOMY
 The largest bill of expense on a poul- try farm is the feed bill. Therefore since grains of all kinds are cheapest in the fall and early winter months, the poultry farmer should plan to have some ready money available. so that he may buy much of his grain at that time o1 the year. By fall he should have sold off his surplus cockerels, cull stock and old fowls, and this money should be invested in grain for the coming sea- son. Such grains as are raised locally can usually be bought much cheaper direct from the producer. In our east ern and northern states, buckwheat wheat and oats can frequently be bought at home markets; the corn, however should be purchased from the mills, and care must be taken to store it where there is circulation of air. Until il is thoroughly dried out it should be cracked only as needed. for cracked corr will heat and become musty when stored in large quantities.
 There will be less waste in ground feeds if they are mixed as soon as bought, and stored in grain boxes ol barrels, for there is considerable waste in constantly dipping feed out of bags If one has sufficient storage room this ground mixed feed can be bought in the early winter at an appreciable. saving or ton or even half-ton quantities.
 If this feed is fed dry the hoppers must be so constructed that the fowls will not waste the grain. If wall hoppers ars used drive long nails through the disl 1.-the hopper, about hye~inches apart which will. prevent the fowls throwing the grain outs
 Another great waste of feed is in indis criminate feeding. Chemists have ana Jyzed grains and have ascertained the properties of an egg. If one wishes g hen to lay, she must be fed grains con- taining the properties needed for egg pro- duction.