South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-08-18

The other meal Ctwo meals daily ,
scatter some whole grain in the litter
on the floor of the house, allowing
one large handful of grain to a hen.
Corn. kaffir, sorghum. barley, buck
wheat, oats, peas, wheat, or mixtures
of these grains are suitable. Inferior
grain is safe TO feed, including
screenings. provided it has not been
damp and moldy. Mold spores cause
diseases.
If you have sour milk, add il 10
the mash. II is a good plan 10 soak
oats in water over night and wash
them. Then pour the soaked oats in
the chicken pot simmering on the
stove. This kills all the mold and
smut spores. The oats can be boiled
alone. when the soft, swollen grains
are enjoyed by baby chicks as we'll
as fowls
Keep your chicken house clean. II
you notice any red mites under the
roosts, on the roOst supports, or in
the nests, paint these with Kerosene
and coal tar or crude carbolic acid
one cup 10 n gallon of oil. Clean off
the drop-board under the roosts once
a week. Keep the outside run dug up
frequently, and if the hens are fed
regularly, and are supplied with
fresh water and shell material, they
Will lay we'll.
Raise Late Hatched Chicks.
In place Of cooking cheap meat.
we can buy Underground meat crisps
or meat scraps. or good tankage, and
.frfl inc 2 q
meat food over table scraps. and Civ
ing the chicks n liberal feed daily.
Another way is 10 make "a mash like
equal weight Of cornmeal ground
oats. wheat shorts and meat scraps
and keep this mash before the chicks
in dry state. In the south it is diff
cult TO obtain any Of these meat
foods Good results are obtained by
using a mash Of equal parts by
weight of cornmeal and ground oats,
and either prime feeding cOttonseed
meal peameal. peanut meal or SOY
bean meal. Mix this mash with the
cooked table scraps and vegetables
out Of the chicken pot, and feed II
literally every morning. Scatter any
whole grain on the grass twice daily,
or let the chickens run in pea field.
Every family in the south should
hatch $50 chics this fall Commence
the hens or incubators Sept. 1 and
continue through October. These +
chicks will grow as we'll in any part
of Dixie as the chicks Matched in
the spring In three months the
cockerels OF breeds like the Plym- /
outh Rocks. Wyandottes and Rhode
Z. Z Fr-fa
This is cheaper meat than you can
produce in any other way. Keep
the pullets for layers. They viii lay
we'll next spring. If YOU have no
green food for the chickens, pillow up
some ground. harrow il and SOW
rape seed. If sown i'm September. /.
rape will furnish tender. crisp green I
food until New Years and frequently /
through the winter. IL is greatly SUI /
perior 10 oats, wheat or rye.
The poultry division of your state !
agricultural college viii help YOU |
start with poultry now They have I
published circulars and bulletins on /
this subject. The department of ag-
riculture at Washington has issued /
bulletins on poultry raising garden !
ing. canning and drying fruit. vege- /
tables and meats. Every one will aid 1
You. The American Poultry associa- /
ton has organized a campaign 10 in T
crease the poultry production OF this 4
country 100.000.O00 pounds. Send 10 .
YOUR state college or 10 Washington \
for the free bulletins on poultry
raising and plan 20 live on roast I
chicken in war times Join the army
OF live at home folks and forget /
high prices of eatables.
tsssts sssssss
Chicks should be Matched in
the fall this year, especially in
the southern sections where Sc
we're weather Is not felt until
Christmas. They are needed 10
increase our food supply. In
next weeks article this oppor-
tunity viii be fully discussed. -
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