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FEEDING LAYING
HEN IS REAL ART
Much of the succès, in w inter egg
production I. obtained from a bucket­
ful of feed In oue hand and a bucket­
ful of common sense In the other.
Feeding the laying hen Is a real art.
for so much depends upon the poultry-
man's decision each day In the m atter
so that his birds will work most efU
! clently.
The feeder Is a skilled m echanic
■ who system atically holds the birds
op to SO to 60 per cent production
from November 1 to the following full,
without causing a slump In egg produc­
tion und at the sam e time m aintaining
I th e ir health and vig o r.
One of the first prerequisites in feed­
ing is to understand w hat the egg con­
sists of. It is made up of a yolk,
white, shell, und Is tw o-thirds w ater.
The yolk Is fat and Is made from
feeding fatty or sturchy foods, us corn,
w heat and oats.
The white Is anim al protein, which
Is made from m aterial such us meat
and milk.
The shell is made mostly of calcium,
which is found in certain kinds of
stone and oyster shell. In order to
aid In the digestion of all of these
foods some bulk is desirable which is
green and succulent, such as sprouted
oats, mangel beets, cabbage, etc.
In order for these foods to be prop­
erly digested, an abundance of grit
should be available, as this acts as the
hen's teeth In grinding the food In the
gizzard.
W ater Is cheap. H ave it before the
birds at all times.
Legume Hay Helps Solve
the Green Feed Problem
MICKIE, THE PRINTER'S DEVIL
Sounds Plausible
Legume hay helps solve the w inter
green feed problem for the chickens.
Experim ents In Ghlo, K ansas, Texas,
and C alifornia seem to indicate defi­
nitely that w here no other source of
green feed Is available the additiou of
a legume hay will Increase the num
her of eggs produced and their
hatchabillty. It will also reduce the
m ortality from nutritional troubles,
points out G. 8. Vickers, extension
specialist In poultry at the Ohio S tate
university.
Save the hay with the most leaves
and the greenest color for the chickens.
An easy way to feed chickens hay Is
to provide a rack along the wall and
keep hay before them all the time. A
trough along the bottom of the rack
will catch all the leaves th a t would
otherw ise be w asted. These can bo
fed from the mash hopper.
A lfalfa meal may be used if good
hay cannot be bought at reasonable
prices. The meal should be used In
the mash. About 10 per cent alfalfa
meal will su b stitu te for a like am ount
of bran. A combination of mangel
beets and legume hay m akes a good
w inter combination to use Instead of
sprouted oats. It may be th a t hay
Is about to tak e the place of our old
reliable, but troublesome, sprouted
oats as a w inter green feed.
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• • •
Soy beans can be used In a poultry
ratio n If m inerals a re added.
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THE FEATHERHEADS
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No Sale!
Poultry raising brings quick returns
and Involves a y uali capital Invest­
m ent In land, buildings and equip­
ment.
• • •
T he factors of scientific poultry
housing are to keep the pens, yards
and houses clean, dry and sanitary.
• • •
T hanksgiving and C hristm as sea­
sons offer good m arkets for râpons.
Jan u ary and February are also good
m onths since at th at tim e poultry of
all kinds Is scarce and buyers are
willing to pay top prices.
• • •
System atic culling may profitably
be practiced throughout the year.
Sick birds, those lacking In constitu­
tional vigor, and those showing any
sign of physical defects shrtuid be dis­
posed of whenever found.
• • •
L itter th a t Is not kept loose and
light Is too heavy for the hens. Put
a little down first : when that Is broken
and fine, add more.
• . .
P u ck s h are been successfully bred
up until seven years of age. The age
of vigor and productiveness In a duck
Is double th at of the hen.
• • •
Green food In some form Is e«ven-
tlal and should be provided regularly
during the w inter months. Cabbage
carrots, turnips, beets or potatoes wl
serve.
• • •
When culling a flock one should
find out w hether It Is the hen or the
ow ner who Is at fault.
• • •
E verything Inside a poutry honse
should be made removable so th at It
can be cleaned.
• • •
Summ er chicks command good
prices In late fall. They should weigh
about five pounds to the pair Those
hatched In the fall stop growing as
the cold w eather sets In. and
USE SKIM MILK
FOR DAIRY CALF
"Many farm ers are not successful In
raising calves on skim milk," says It.
W. Clark In Colorado Extension B ul­
letin No. 127. “Whole milk may pro­
duce the best calf, but not necessarily
the best cow. As good an anim al cun
be produced on skim milk as can be
produced on whole milk, but g reater
cure and attention I. required In pro­
ducing the former.
“T he calf should nurse Its m other
for the first tew days, a fte r which It
should be removed and fed .by hand.
Whole milk, warm and fresh from the
m other, should be given for ten days
or two weeks a t least. Ten to tw elve
pounds per day In two or three feeds
should be given at first, and the length
of tim e tliut It should be continued
depends upon the strength of the calf.
O rdinarily ten days to two weeks will
be required to make the change from
whole milk to skim milk. G radually
substitute skim milk for whole ntllk.
Increasing the form er until the whole
milk Is entirely replaced. T his may
be a week or It niuy be a month. Skim
milk should be warm and sw eet when
fed, as cold so u r skim milk is the
greatest cause of scours. It may be
fed for six or seven months, depending
mainly upon the supply. It should be
given until five m onths of age at
least."
Missouri College Cows
Make New Milk Records
V o ur K id n e y . Occasion«
by D rinking Q u a rt, of
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Good W ater
No man o r woman can make a ml»,
ta k e by flushing the kidneys occasion
ally, says u well-known authoritr
Too much rich food creates arid,
w hich clog the kidney pores s„
.
they sluggishly filter or strain only
p a rt of the w aste and poisons from
th e blood. Then you get sick. Ithen
m atism , headaches, liver trouble
nervousness, constipation, dlzzlnem
sleeplessness, bladder disorders often
come from sluggish kidneys
T he m om ent you feel a dull ache In
th e kidneys or your back hurts, or If
th e urine Is cloudy, offensive, fun o(
sedim ent. Irreg u lar of passage, or at­
tended by a sensation of scalding, be­
gin to drink soft w ater in quantities*
also get about four ounces of j a,|
S alts from any reliable pharmacy and
tak e a tablespoonful in a glass of wa
1er before b reak fast fo r a few days
and your kidneys may then act fine.
T his fam ous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon Juice, com­
bined w ith Ilthia, and has been used
fo r y ears to help flush clogged kid­
neys and stim ulate them to activity,
also to htdp neutralize the acids |n
the system so they no longer cause
Irritatio n , th u s often relieving bladder
disorders.
Ja d S alts !< inexpensive and cannot
In ju re ; m akes a delightful efferves­
cent llth la-w ater drink, which every­
one can ta k e now and then to help
keep the kidneys clean and the blood
pure, thereby often preventing serloui
kidney com plications.
Two new M issouri Jersey records In
milk and b u tterfa t production have
been reported by the dairy specialists
W a rn in g to A u to isti
at the Missouri College of A gricultura
A plan aim ed a t Impressing auto­
here.
mobile drivers th a t they should op­
R aleigh’s Velvet Queen, a m ature e ra te th eir m achines saiely has been
cow In th e , herd of Longview Farm , adopted at Pittsburgh. Large white
Lees Summit, In ten m onths produced crosses a re painted on dangerous
332.78 pounds of b u tte rfa t and 12,- stre e t intersections of the city where
731 pounds of milk. T his Is the high
a num ber of futalltles have occurred.
est m ature 305-day Jersey record ever A sh o rt distance from the cross is
tr.ade In Missouri, the specialists painted a large w hite figure Indicat­
said.
The new cham pion has been ing the num ber of people who have
aw arded a gold medal by the Amer
already lost th eir lives a t that par­
lean Jersey C attle club, New York. tic u la r spot.
In a previous test m ade when she
was a two-.vear-old. Queen produced
626.25 pounds of fat and 11,025 pounds DEMAND “BAYER” ASPIRIN
of milk In 305 dn.vs.
A nother Jersey cow. Cam pus Love T a k e T ab lets W ith o u t F e a r If You
See the Safety "B ayer Cross.”
C„ established a new senior four
yeur-old record for Missouri by pro­
W arning 1 U nless you see the name
ducing Í1O.67 pounds of b u tterfa t and
12,266 pounds of milk In 365 days. “B ayer” on package o r on tablets yoa
T his cow also w as tested as a ju n io r a re not g ettin g the genuine Bayer
tw o-year old, when
she produced A spirin proved safe by millions and
466.84 pounds of b u tte rfa t and 7,456 prescribed by physicians for 26 years.
Say “B ay er” w hen you buy Aspirin.
pounds of milk In 365 days.
Im ltutions may prove dangerous.—Adv.
Silage Must Be Given
Serious Consideration
T he dairym an who Is milking ten or
m ore cows In the corn belt can well
afford to consider the advisability of
using silage for his cows. Dairy cows
need succulence In th eir ration to pro­
duce to the best advantage.
Corn
m akes a large am ount of feed per acre
when It Is converted into silage and
provides the succulence th a t dairy
cows need when p astu re Is not avail­
able.
Some of the larg er dairym en find a
profitable use for two silos. A large
silo Is used for w inter and a sm aller
silo is used for sum m er.
In th is
schem e th e men a re able to provide a
succulent feed for th eir cows nt any
season of the year. If It happens to
he a very moist year and the p astu res
rem ain good, the silage In the small
silo is carried over or fed to some
o th er type of stock. However, there
a re not many years when silage will
not come lu handy to supplem ent p as­
tu re crops.
S team as F ire A larm
Pounding of steam In the radiators
In th e home of Isadore J. Abramson
of Philadelphia aw akened him. He
found the house to be on fire. The
six m em bers of the fam ily were forced
to flee. T he w ater In the heating
system boiled when the fire started
next to th e steam pipes In the base­
m ent.
On th e O th er H and
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“Yeah, but he Roon gets a reputa­
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supply Ideal roughage for dairy cows.
• • •
Individual stalls and palls are ad­
visable so th at each calf will get Its
share.
• • •
" hen the calves a re about two
weeks old, they should be taught to
eat grain and hay.
• • •
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Feed the cows according to their
production ; about one pound of grain
to three or four pounds of milk.
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Weigh and test the milk and esti­
m ate the cost of th e feed to determ ine
which cows are helping pay the bills.
• • •
For dairy cows on p astu re a m ixture
of equal p,.r,s of ground oats and corn
i Is ordinarily the most practical ration,
the case of extrem ely heavy milk
ers during the late sum m er It may pay
to add a little oil meal.
• • •
Cool milk or cream to not less than
50 degrees F. w ithin a few m inutes
a fter it Is draw n or skimmed. M ain­
tain this tem perature.
Weed out the unprofitable cows. It
is w iser and more profitable to milk
three goods cows than six or eight
poor ones.
The calf should also have free ac-
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