Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-01-12
GREEN LAKE FARMERS CLUB.

GREEN LAKE FARMERS CLUB.
The first meeting Of the club for
1916 will be held at Spicer, Satur-
versity Farm will be present to speak.
Prof. Peck has charge of the cost &C.
counting investigational work carried
on in Minnesota and is in a position
to know what enterprises are proving
most profitable to Minnesota farmers.
Election OF officers for the coming
year will also take place at this meet
ing. Program published next week.
GOLDEN ROD FARMERS CLUB.
Program.
Reading Of minutes of last meeting
by secretary.
Roll call.
Reading by Miss Josie Bradeson.
Solo, Mr.. H. S. Tallakson.
Reading, by Walter Qvale.
Reading. Mrs. H. S. Tallakson.
Speaker, Hon. P. H. Frye.
Lunch.
Meeting will be held in School A
Friday evening, January IA. 1t is
planned to start the program prompt
ly at s o'clock.
Feeds For Poultry.
Animal protein is considered essen
tial to the best results in feeding
Most poultrymen feed meat in some
form, while suburban poultry keepers
either feed this product or table
scraps; but few farmers buy any meat
feed Some form of feed containing
animal protein must be supplied if any
eggs are to be obtained in the fall and
winter. Skim milk or buttermilk is
available on many farms, and where
it is not it would probably pay mos1
farmers to buy beef scrap or some
other meat feed. Fowls on free range
on the farms pick up bugs and insects
during the summer, which furnish this
protein feed, so that the use of add
tional meat feeds is regulated by in
dividual conditions. A well-balanceC
ration contains the proper proportion
of protein and carbohydrates for its
purpose with the mineral matter, bulk
and palatabil that are necessary tt
give good feeding results. There /:
no best ration, and the practical ap
plication of science in poultry feeding
is to know about what proportion o.
these substances gives good feeding
results and then to use roughly thl:
relative proportion in making ration:
or in substituting different feeds, &C
cording to their price and availability
In securing fall and winter eggs thu
first essential is to have pullets wei
'matured before cold weather, which
means Matching birds of the general
purpose breeds in March and April
The average farmer matches his chick
ems too late to secure eggs in the fall
With well-matured pullets and improV
ed feeding methods farmers could Sc
cure. more eggs in winter than the!
obtain under present conditions.
A well-balanced simple ration ma,
lie made of equal parts, by weight, o
wheat. cracked corn, and oats fet
twice daily, usually in the morning
and at night. The grain should b.
scattered in the litter in the poultr!
house in winter. It should be supple
mented with a wet or dry mash OF
parts of corn meal and part each
wheat bran, middlings, and beef SCRAP
One feed of mash may be fed at an.
time during the day and the grain fe'
for the other two meals. Regulate tn
proportion of grain and mash 50 tina
the hen will consume about equa
parts of each. About l quart of grail
daily should be fed to every 16 Lee
| horn hens, or to Is generalpurpos
hens, such as the Plymouth Rocks
| with an equal weight Of mash. I'M
| amount, however, varies and shout
be regulated by the feeder, as the hen
should be eager for each meal. Les
| horns will eat about SIS pounds
grain and mash in a year, and RI,
mouth Rocks, or hens of the genera
purpose class, about Is pounds.
Do You Have Separator?
After exhaustive experiments at tn
Indiana Experiment Station to deter
mine the loss of butterfat in the ski
milk of different methods of separatlo
the loss was found to be about .O2 pc
cent by the hand separator method a
compared with "A per cent by tn
shallow pan method. In cow givln
5000 mounds of milk per year the los!