Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-05-26

part each of wheat bran. middlings,
may be fed at any time during. the
day and the grain fed for the other
two meals. Regulate the proportions
of grain and mash 10 that the hen
will about equal parts of
each. About m quart of grain daily
should be fed to every 16 Leghorn
hens, or IS general-purpose hens.
such as the Plymouth Rocks. with an
equal weight of mash. This amount.
ulated by the feeder. as the hens
should be eager for each meal. Leg
horns will eat about IS pounds of
grain and mash in a year. and
Plymouth Rocks or hens of the gen
eral-purpose breeds. about Is pounds.
The Merry Widow Hen.
1T may seem. that in passing the
rooster should be mentioned. Why
shouldn't he come In for his fair
need Of praise. or something to that
effect? Socially the rooster is a win
ner; commercially he stands about
where a good many men do socially.
He is recognized only because he Is
his wife's husband; and he is a
Troublesome one at that.
III he would accommodatingly dis
appear from I'll farms east and west
about the first Of May each year, and
not put in his appearance again un-
til the first Of February, he would &C
complish a tremendous economic saw
ing and make his name less harshly
spoken.
THE rooster Is a non-producer so
far as direct profits r concerned.
If sold at an early age he makes a
tender morsel and may barely ball
ance his feed bill. A year later, when
he Is turned over to the butcher. with
his good wife. who has In the mean
time turned a neat profit IN the eggs
she has laid. he brings only half as
much a pound as she does.
But that isn't all. Contrary to the
general notion, egg production is not
at all dependent upon the male bird.
A widowed hen forgets her grief.
crowds her mourning into q half a
day and lays merrtly on. The eggs
won't hatch, to be sure. but they will
keep longer in hot weather and stand
storage or shipment much better than
the fertile or hatchable egg.
Zone, but only one. of the great
secrets of putting a fresh egg on the
table Of the city consumer. in hot
weather. is keeping the male bird
from the laying flock"
Initiate Nature in Feeding.
Professor H. NJ. Cottrell, now agri-
culturist for the Business Mems club
production used the argument that in
feeding, the season Of the year at
which hens produced the largest num-
Der of eggs should be initiated as
nearly az possible. To enforce this
idea he told Of an instance where a
young man in New York state had
observed that eggs during May and
June were quoted at perhaps one
fourth what they were during Deem
why this was. and naturally answered
by saying that May and June were
the months when the climate and feed
stimulated the egg production to the
greatest extent. He further asked him
self. why 1t would not be possible to
initiate these conditions at the time
when eggs were sc high in price. A
study Of conditions during the time
Of greatest egg production showed
able to get plenty Of a large variety
Of feed. which makes 1t possible for
them to reach the maximum g pro-
ductton. He reasoned that 1t would be
possible for him to build warm, airy
coops. heat them, If necessary artifi-
clally. He could combine grains in
such a way as to secure a variety Of
feeds. and to TAKE the place Of in
sects which the hens collect during
the summer, and doubtless add great
ly to their ability to produce eggs, he
would buy meat scraps. etc. He stu
died u every condition which he
thought must be met. but he vas un-
able to get his hens to exercise them
selves properly In the houses. He had
bought during the fall a large amount
OF low grade cabbage that he intend
ed to feed them to take the place Of
green eeds. He conceived the idea of
hanging these cabbages from the roof
so 1t was necessary for the hens to
jump up q foot or so to get at the
cabbage. This he thought would cor
tainly give them the proper amount
OF exercise. This all done he said:
Il have now given the hens the ex-