The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-11

he did not have faith in the old hen,
he would not have left the county
agency to take up poultry raising.
Give your poultry the attention they
need, and the returns will be eggs for
market
i Feeding for egg production, if you
want to make poultry pay you, must
appreciate the hens needs. The hen
is an egg factory; the egg the finished
product.
One must understand feeding. The
/ first law Of nature is f-preservatlon.
The hen, as all other bodies, has five
systems first, digestive; second, ner-
vous-a laying hen is highly nervous,
no great poultry man will allow strang-
ers to enter his poultry house unless
he accompanies them-third, circula-
tory; fourth, respiratory-needs plen-
ty of fresh air; fifth, reproductive.
Every one of these five systems must
be working to produce required eff
feet. All systems to be kept up as
body cares for self first.
Therefore feed all body require
ments and also what is required to
make for production. Supply water
and plenty of it. In one dozen of eggs
there is one pint of water.
Low production of eggs is often
caused by lack of water. Natures
drink is water. Give them all they
want. To obtain best results know
what you are feeding for and use
methods nearest to nature.
The scratch feed he advocated, scat
tering in deep straw in order to make
the hen work as it is the active hen
that pays. 1t also gives exercise,
vigor. Keeps them warm; keeps them
busy.
The mesh formula he advised kept
before poultry at all times is: Equal
parts ground oats, cornmeal, wheat
bran and middlings, glutonmeal, lin
seed oil and finely ground meat
scraps, and three to five pounds of
| salt to 100 pounds of mash.
i The meat scraps we furnish in the
winter take the place of the bugs
and worms the fowls find in the spring
and summer. The corn feed should
be cracked and only on cold winters
night feed whole corn as more feed is
required to keep up the annual heat
and egg production.
The use of the electric lighted poul-
/ try house was advised for making a
longer day of work and activity for
the fowl. Let them go to bed at their
usual time and turn on lights about
4 o'clock in the morning.
A mash for little chicks was given
as follows: Hulled oats, cracked corn
and cracked wheat.
A laying hen is wonderful piece
of mechanism. Watch your fowls and
in SO doing you can learn a great
deal. He advocated keeping mash be-
fore the fowls the year round. Green
feed they must have. Cabbage, man
giles, silage, is good. Alfalfa is good.
| Sprouted oats in medium sized focks.
Potatoes not very good.
No stimulant is needed for egg pro-
duction. The most economical for
farmers is to buy chicks (day old) in
stead of Matching themselves. If you
buy all at once you have work all at
once. He also said it was a good plan
to buy pullets in fall of April or May
hatch. This often saves time for many
farmers. By watching your fowls you
can decide which are best layers and
which to Gull out. He recommended
breeding from older hens and not
year old chicks.
i Poultry growing completes with all
other farm work, and the more person
al attention is given the better the
results.
The fowls must be supplied with
something to masticate their food as
food passes through the stomach be-
fore it is masticated. Supply gravel.
They must also be supplied with lime
so give oyster shells.
Ventilation-Too much, cold house;
too little, wet house; medium ventila-
ton best.
Home made feed hoppers; a trough
with square bottom raised from floor
with board on the side for fowls to
stand on.
He told of using cracker box and
placing wire screen on feed to keep
Fowls from scratching in the feed.
Later in the afternoon Mr.. Brown
told an interesting talk of poultry
culling.
Mr.. Brill talked on "Sweet Glover
for Pasture" He said that last year
on the institute programs was this
subject: "Have We Place for Sweet
Glover in Wisconsin," 1t has found
a place and has big future.
/ Some farmers have used sweet clover
for silage. 1t has found a place in
Wisconsin's seeding with small grains
and blowing under.
1t has been used successfully in pas
lures as we have been looking for bet
ter grass for such as q great deal of
Wisconsin's valuable lands must be
used in rotation of crops. If the spring
is late cattle go out about June 1st and
often the hot weather of July kills the
grass and to have good pasture thru
out the summer the farmer must have
a crop that will stand heat and drouth.
Many dairy farmers now practice sum-
mer feeding of silage thus feeding
silage the year round. Considering
time and labor the farmer must find
something deep rooted for summer
feeding.
AS the cow must have wide muz-
zle to maintain her milk flow, the
cow first requires food to support her
body. She makes her milk when at
rest chewing the cud.
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