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10 HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION A Weekly Page of Poultry Hints to You Here Is a Department Full of Bright Ideas for Readers of the Home and Farm Magazine Section. only thing t o do is to rat what is at small <0 An intereating article in whioh $> wheat, or else boy the prepared foods. f r Clara M. Nixon of Oregon Agri- 3> If the latter course is followed, the fr cultural College eontinuee her dis- <§> food should be carefully examined, by <& cueeion of the feeding of young <£ taste, sight, and odor, to make sure it ^ chickens. ♦ is good. Methoi* of Feeding. ♦ ♦. Both ground grain and grain of larger PEW grains seem .to be essential, size seem necessary to the beat growth but a large variety of grains is not of chicks. (R. 11, 13). The ground food is quickly digested, and furnishes necessary in chick feeding. Wheat is one of the beat grain foods, the food elements without so great ex and chicks do well if given wheat alone pense of energy in digestion. Cracked as a grain. I t is usually cracked for grain gives exercise and development the youngest chicks, though they will to the digestive system, and remains pick up small grains, like .wheat screen longer in the crop. Chicks do not get ings, after they are a few days old; es so hungry in the night if their latest pecially if th ey are with the hen. Corn meal is of cracked grain. On the other is another excellent food for chicks. A hand, chicks fed only cracked grain mixture of corn and wheat is good for grow less rapidly than others having chickens of all ages. Millet is not good, ground food as well as cracked grain. Ground food m oistened w ith m ilk if fed in large proportion. T he cover ing of the g rain s is very hard, and the gives more retu rn in grow th of chicks seeds m ay collect in the digestive tract than th e sam e am ount fed dry. Chicas ♦ hand, as wheat screenings or » A o f th e chicks, causing death. O ats are v alu ab le food, b u t contain too larg e a proportion of husk for young chicks. H ulled oats, steel cu t oats, .or o at g ro a ts m ay be m ixed w ith o^orn and w h eat for the g rain food. The hulled o ats is the grain w ithout tl»ei husk, and th e others are th e cut or broken hulled oats. Commercial C hick Foods. Commercial chick .oods contain a larg er v ariety of g rain s jijid o ften a lot o f weed seeds. T he I n ttir are not par tic u la rly good food, and are expensive a t th e price paid. Many* of the eoin m ercial g rain m ix tu res contain a pro portion of fine g rit, w hich m ay lx* more cheaply purchased as { rit th an as chick food. C racked corn is usually one of th e in g red ien ts of com m ercial chick foods. U nless well eared for, th is m ay becom e m usty, rendering th e e n tire m ix tu re u n f i t to be fed. Home m ixing m akes it easier to avoid spoiled foods. Cracked Grains. Comm ercial chick fowls cost about $2.50 per hundred w eight, in q u a n tity . Corn averages about $1.50 per hundred pounds (1.6 bu.) and is seldom more th a n $2.00 per hundred, even iu sm aller quan tities. W heat rare ly costs over $1.50 per 100 pounds. A mixture of equal p a rts w heat and corn w m ld cost $1.75 per hundred pounds. A m ixture o f th re e pounds w heat, two pounds corn and one pound o a t g ro a ts would cost $1.91 per hundred weight. The form er of these mixtures is 30 per cent chVaper than the commercial mixtures, and the latter 23 per cent. The saving of one fourth to one third on the cost of food is quite an item, and will easily pay for the mixing. Usually the cracked grains may be purchased at any of the larger mills; if, however, they are not available, the Berry Growers Combine. Nineteen berry growers met at Snoho mish. Wash., recently and organized an association for tho marketing of local farm products, including vegetables and amall fruit. Sixty other farmers are expected to join the association. The 19 members year and the other farmers should have as many more. though unlimited range is not necessary “ A preacher who graduates from th$ until they are a few weeks old. If the yards are too small, „he ground becomes pulpit into politics becomes a menace to filthy and may communicate disease. In good government. Likewise, a politician small yards, the chicks get too little who occupies the pulpit debaunches the exercise, with resulting lack of muscular church and becomes a menace to religion. development; and greater car© in food “ Political leaders may live ‘w et’ and ing is necessary. vote ‘d r y / and the low standard of For young broods, a sufficiently large statecraft is not offended—but when range, and ore which makes it possible the church turns over the pulpit to o f to protect the chicks from accident and fice-seekers and their henchmen, true marauders, is best. Grass out moder Christianity has received a crushing ately short, where shelter from the hot blow, and hypocrisy runs rampant iu sun is provided, is about the right con the altar, for it is written: ‘ Ye cannot dition. An orchard is a fine place for serve two masters. ’ *1 The Farmers’ Union of Texas is fully them, if they can be protected from justified in its stand. It is delivering hawks, crows, etc. The older chicks niav range in a sun an ultimatum to those alleged and mis flower patch, corn field, orchard, wood taken reformers who make a business lot, or any convenient place where they of confusing “ temperance” and “ pro can find insects and shelter. If allowed hibition. * ’ T he C en tu ry D ictio n ary defines th e about the barn yard or pig sty, they art iu danger of being trodden upon by the word “ T em p eran c e” as follow s: “ M od eratio n — th e observance of m o d eratio n .” farm animals or eaten by the pigs. do well, how ever, on a ratio n .of cracked Farmers of Texas Tire of Prohibi g ra in and dry m ash, and th e labor cost is less th a n fo r th e inoist m ash. (R. tion fad 11, 13). T his brings down th e expense, ARM ERS of T exas, alw ay s zealous if the chicks are reared in large num advocatos of “ tem perance, * ’ have bers. W here chickens are raised by had enough of “ P ro h ib itio n liens, moist mash is often preferred. Some poultry men keep d ry mash alw ays ¡They have trie d th a t fad to a fin ish — before th e chicks, how ever reared, and and th ey are done w ith it. give one m eal a day o f inoist mash. The T his a ttitu d e explains w hy th e F a rm chicks will usually eat more of he e r s ’ Union of th e Lone S ta r S ta te has ground food if fed in th is w ay, though passed p o in ted and em phatic resolutions the am ount of m oist mash should be touching th e p resent cam paign. T h at lim ited, ('h ick s under one pound in o rganization has said in th e p lain est of weight are said to do b e tte r on m oist language th a t th e need of th e people is m ash, w ith g rain , larger chickens grow “ co n stru ctiv e le g isla tio n .” ing b e tte r on dry mash. The expected has happened in th is Hand Feeding or HoppoT-Feeding. connection. The F a r m e rs ’ Unjon lias T he boppf r or some such device is brought down on itse lf th e explosive practically a necessity in dry feeding. w rath of political preachers who talk H opper feeding ta k e s loss tim e than “ tem perance, ” b u t who in sist th a t hand feeding, and m any consider th a t “ p ro h ib itio n ” aud to ta l “ a b s tin e n c e ” chicks raised on cracked g rain and h o p are th e only cure fo r th e d rin k evil. . per fed dry mash m ake q u ite as good B ut the leaders o f the F a rm e rs ’ U n m ature fow ls as those reared by the ion are am ply able to ta k e care of hand feeding system (m oist m ash). them selves in nn arg u m en t o f this kind. W ith hopper feeding, it is possible to T hey have issued a le tte r in which th ey provide a co n stan t supply of food which dem and th a t politics be k ep t out of th e cannot be read ily soiled by the chicks. pu lp it, and in which fa rth e r th ey mix F or young chickens, hopper feeding both vitrio l w ith th e ir arg u m en t, th u s: grain and m ash is not advisable. The “ The religious preacher is the m ost chicks se ttle down by the brain hopper, capable sefv an t, and th e p o litical p reach and gorge them selves, ta k in g too little er th e sorriest m aster th e world has exercise. T h is would p robably be d is ev er know n. W herever pow er is placed astrous. in the hands o f the la tte r, th ey in v a ria The sa fest m ethod is to feed the dry bly becom e in to le ra n t, bigoted and vie- mash ( if used'' in hoppers, hand-feeding the grain. G rit, charcoal, and fine cracked bone are hopper-fed; also beef F scrap, if desired. Moist mash, if used, is necessarily-hand-fed. For growing stock on range, hopper- feeding works well. Labor is consider ably reduced, and the birds grow finely. Free Range or Confinement. As a rule, the more good range which can be given young chickens the better; R u les a n d w on’t m ake p e r fect home baking w ithout a g o o d leavener. F. H. SCHMALZ & CO. 1M Powder Front SUOOt. P o r tU a d , O regon. PETER H A B E R L IN . 800 V ictor Bldg., W ashington, D. O. A M E R IC A N D IS T R IB U T IN G 0 4 100« Broadway Bath 4 0 4 C O M M E R C IA L B L K ., P O R T L A N D , O R . Baking O btained. (TWATB ’EM IN 4 NIGHT. ELITE PRiVATE BUSINESS COLLEGE Crescent Send Sketch and Description for Opinion a s to Patentability. For Rata, Miec, B quim li, BU. homo to every political preacher and mischief-maker in Texas the essential distinction between true “ temper ance” and “ prohibition.” — Seattle Times, May 24, 1914, Editorial I’age 6, (Paid Advertisement.) FREE EGG CASES. F H . S ch m al* A Co., p a id u p c a p ita l $ 1 0 . 0 0 0 . e a ta b lia h e d 1 9 0 8 , w a n t 5 0 0 m o r# farm e ra as r e g u la r s h ip p e r s o f f re s h e g g s eaeh w e e k a n d w ill se n d f re e on r e k u e s t. b y m en tio n in g thia paper, an egg c*ae. H ig h e s t m ark et p rice g u a ra n teed . W r ite today. Taga. p rie e a free. V eal. boga. p o u ltry a n d h id e s a lso w an ted. N o co m m ia sien s charged. U. S. and Foreign Patents The King o f ail Exterminators R ecip es H a b itu a l m oderation in regurd to th e indulgence of th e n a tu ra l ap p etites. R estrain ed or m oderate indulgence. A b stinence from all violence or excess— from in o rd in a te or unseasonable indulg ence. or from th e.u se or p u rsu it of a n y th in g in ju rio u s to m oral or physical w ell-being. S o b ric tv and fru g a lity — as tem p er ance in e a tin g an d d rin k in g . T em per ance in th e indulgence of jo y or g rief. M oderation in th e use o f -alcoholic liquors a s b e v e ra g e s.” It is ev id en t th a t the Farm ers* Union o f a “ p ro h ib itio n ” s ta te know s from b itte r experience . th e ex act d ifferen ce betw een “ tem p eran ce” an d “ to ta l a b stinence. ’ ’ % T hey propose to have “ te m p e ra n c e ” and th a t is th e reason w hy th e y have used lan g u ag e th a t ad m its of no mis- n te rp re ta tio n in tellin g “ p o litical p re a c h e rs” w here th e y belong, and w arn in g all such to keep out of th e fight. The Readers of th e F a r m e rs ’ Union propose to have th e ir own w ay ab o u t it, too. T hey h av e b u ilt 10,COO churches Texas. T hey h av e co n trib u te d $5,000,000 a y e a r to religious o rg an iza tio n s—and th ey d em o n strate th a t 75 per cen t o f th e preachers in th e s la te are on th e f a rm e r s ’ payroll. The facts cited and tin? arguments adduced ought to be enough to drive i.irs E b e n e M ain M M is m ade to in su r e a good r a ia a and to au stain the r ise n dougb>— your eakaa c a n 't fa ll. A S K Y O UR GRO CER 2 5 c par lb. C r«scent M fg. Co. S s n U e W ash. MAXTOR X. D E C K E R . A C lip t h i s C o u p o n a a 4 m a ll to tA a f i e — a O f f ic e f o r f 'l l f l n f o r m a t i o n . — l i e e b lix a tie n in c u rre d . HKALTH ACCTOHNT POM PL I T ■ B IN A T I O N VO O N N T T 1 R A C T 3-1 M. 1 P r in c ip a l. P erson al A tte n tio n . In d iv id u a l I n * t n a tio n . S a tis fa c tio n G uaranteed. P o e m o n e for OraAn- e. S p ecia l 8 a SSL’RANCH 00. HOMB OFTTCl—8XATTLH. U S. A.