The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-25
TABLE SCRAPS
CUT FEED BILL
Poultry Relish Various Waste
Foods, but Should Have
Grain Feed Also.

If the city flock is to prove an
economic success, it must be fed
cheaply All table scraps and
kitchen waste should be utilized.
Scraps of meat or leftover vege-
tables which can not be utilized in
any other way make excellent feed.
Many other waste products, such as
beet tops, turnip tops, carrot tops,
potato parings, onion tops, water
melon and cantaloupe rinds, the out
side leaves of cabbages, waste let
tuce leaves, and bread and cake
crumbs are relished by the hens
and can be used to good advantage.
In saving the scraps and waste it
is well to separate the portions
adapted for feeding to the flock
and place these in receptacle or
pail of their own. Decomposed
waste material or moldy bread or
cake should never be saved to feed
to the hens, a sit is harmful to
them and may cause serious bowel
trouble. Sloppy materials, such as
dishwater, should not be thrown in
to their pail. 1t is also useless to
put in such things as banana peels
or the skins of oranges, as these
have little or no food value.
Any sour milk which is not utiliz-
ed in the house should be given to
the chickens. This should be fed
separately, however, either by al
lowing it to clabber on the back of
the stove and feeding it in that con-
dition. When the family's table
waste is not sufficient for feeding
the flock, it is usually possible to
get some of the neighbors who keep
no hens to save material suitable
for feeding. Many people are glad
to do this if small pail in which
to put the waste is furnished.
Table scraps and kitchen waste
are best prepared for feeding by
running them through an ordinary
household food chopper or meat
grinder After the material has
been put through the grinder it is
usually a rather moist mass, and
it is well to mix with it some corn
meal, bran, or other ground grain
until the whole mass assumes a
crumbly condition. The usual
method is to feed the table scraps
at noon or at night, or at both
times, as may be desired, in a
trough or on a board. All should
be fed that the hens will eat up
clean, and if any of the material
is left after one-half or three-quar-
tiers of an hour, it should be remov-
ed. If allowed to remain it may
spoil and be very bad for the hens
Need Grain Ration.
The back yard flock should have
in addition to the table scraps, a
light feed of grain every morning
Four or five handfuls of grain
about one4half pint-scattered in
the litter will be sufficient for a
flock of 20 to 25 hens. By handful
is meant as much as can be graspeo
the hand, not what can be scoop
ed up in the open hand. By scat
tering it in the litter, the hens viii
be compelled to scratch in order tt
ind the grain and in tbs way tt
take exercise, which is decidedly
beneficial to them.
In case not enough good, sound
substantial table scraps are avail
able to furnish full feed of the
grain mixture should be thrown in
to the litter at the night feedinf
and should consist of as much a,
the hens will eat up clean. In sum
mer or during suitable weather tn,
grain can be fed by scattering i
on the ground outside the house.
A good grain mixture for this pur
pose is composed of equal parts b!
weight of wheat, cracked corn, anC
oats. Another suitable grain mix
ture is composed of two parts b,
weight of cracked corn and one par
Of oats.