Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-02-21
GETTING EGGS
ALL The TINE
Results Of This Years Exper.
Ience in Tennessee Poultry
Yards Worth Noting
EARLY MATCHED CHICKS PAY
For the Keeper Of ! Few Hens Theae
Remarks Are Peculiarly Timely;
and on the Farm Taey Are Being
Applied All the Time.

(By r.. N. Crane, Division Of Exten-
sion, University of Tennessee)
Hens seldom lay eggs before very
late winter or early spring The fowls
that lay during the fall months and
the early winter months are the early
Matched pulets. BY early Matched Ia
meant pullets Matched in February,
March, and the first two weeks Of
April
After one has matured pullets, bear
In mind that in. order to get eggs water
is most essential. More than three
fouFths of the composition Of the
fowls body and also of the egg is
composed Of water See that protein
is supplied in the feed. The protein
of the feed lis changer by the fowls to
albumen or white of the eggs. See that
the feeds have liberal supply OF
fats aud carbohydrates, as these con-
stitute very largely the yolk Of tie
ses
Table and garden waste contains a
considerable amount Of beth Of these.
Ingredients In addition, feed at least
the protein feed in more concen-
trated form and in greater quantities.
This can best be fed in the form of
meat scraps or fresh ground bone
which can be obtained in the market
house at 3 cents a pound, One ounce
of these green cut bones to each fowl
three or four times a week is quite
sufficient and greater quantity Is
liable to dsarrange the system of the
fowls and to cause trouble.
In supplying neat scraps, fowls
will not eat so much, and the same
care in the feeding is not necessary.
Meat scraps should be fed in cOnnec-
ton with dry mash.
Five pounds OF meat scraps to 10
pounds Of corn meal and 10 pounds Of
wheat bran is about right. This
should be thOrOly mixed together for
the dry mash. Keep the dry mash in
trough so constructed that the fowls
can not waste it, or in dry mash hop
per, left open to the fowls at all times.
The garden and kitchen waste can
best be utilized by being mixed, and
thoroly cooked before feeding. This
should be mixed with sufficient guam
tity of dry mash to form crumbly
but not sloppy mixture, and given to
the fowls about noon.
All the grain the fowls will eat up
clean should be fed about five O'Clock
In the afternoon in a litter of straw,
leaves, or planer shayings, which
should cover the poultry house floor.
A handful Of grain to each ten hens
should be thrown in the little after
the fowls have gone to rOOst to give
them exercise on having the percheS
early in the morning
The scratch grains fed in the litter
may consist of any COED commercial
scratch feed for sale on the market
or may consist OF one-Rart cracked
corn, one-part good heavy white oats,
and one-part wheat screenings.
Ten hens properly taken care OF will
supply ample eggs for table purposes
for the average family Of four,
Grit, oyster shell, and graduated
should be kept in separate
dishes, so that the fowls can always
have free access to them The grit
serves as teeth in masticating the
feed; the oyster shell furnishes the
carbonate to enclose the edible
egg the charcoal is to keep the fowls
in condition. lettuce leaves. celery
tops, cabbage, turnips, and other sue
culunt vegetables also tend to keep
the fowls In good health and to stimu-
late egg production