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10 HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION A Weekly Page of Poultry Hints to You Her It ft Department Full of Bright Ideal for Beaden of the Home and Farm Magazine Section. An intereatinf article U whiek Qua M. Niion. of Oregon Agri- cultural College continue her die- ft cussion of the feeding of young chicken. FEW grain seem to be essential, f-l but a large variety of grains is not necessary in chick feeding. Wheat is one of the best grain foods, and ehieks do well if given wheat alone as a grain. It is usually cracked for the youngest chicks, though they will pick up small grains, like wheat screen ings, after they are a few days old; es pecially if they are with the hen. Corn -is another excellent food for chicks. A mixture of corn and wheat is good for chickens of all agoe. Millet is not good, if fed in large proportion. The cover ing of the grains is very hard, and the eeeds may collect in the digestive tract of the chicks, causing death. Oats are valuable food, but contain too large a proportion of husk for young chicks, Hulled oats, steel cut oats, or oat groats may be mixed with corn and wheat for the grain food. The hulled oats is the grain without the husk, ami the- others are the cut or broken Initio.-! oat3. Commercial Chick Foods. Commercial chick .'oods contain a larger variety of grains and often a lot of weed seeds. The tatter iire not par ticularly good food, and aro expensive, at tho price paid. Many of the com mereial grain mixtures contain a proportion- of fine grit, which may be more cheaply purchased as ,rit than as chick food. (.'Tasked corn is usually one of the in gredients of commercial chick foods. Unless well cared for, this may become; musty, rendering the entire mixture un fit to be fed. Home mixing makes it; easier to avoid spoiled foods. Cracked Grains. Commercial chick-foods cost about $2.50 per hundred weight, in quantity. Corn averages about $1.50 per hundred pounds (1.6 bu.) and is seldom more than $2.00 per hundred, even in smaller quantities. Wheat rarely costs over $1.50 per 100 pounds. A mixtnre of equal parts wheat and corn wuld cost $1.75 per hundred pounds, A mixture of three pounds wheat, two pounds corn and one pound oat groats would eost $1.91 per hundred weight The former of these mixtures is 30 per cent cheaper than the commercial mixtures, and the lattor 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 thp 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 the 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. The King of all Exterminators For Eats, Mice, Squirrels, Etc. SWATS 'EM IK A NIGHT. AMERICAN DISTEIBUTrNO OO. 1004 Broadway Building Btlmi iiiiiiiis .sra only thing to do it to re what is at hand, as wheat screenings or small wheat, or els bar the prepared foods. If the latter oourse is followed, the food should be carefully examined, by taste, light, and odor, to make sure it i good. Methods of feeding. Both ground ferain tad grain of larger suse seem necessary to the best growth of .chieks. (K. 11, 13). The ground food is quickly digested,, and furnishes the food elements without so great ex pense of energy in digestion. Cracked, grain gives exercise and development to the digestive system, and remains longer in the crop. Chicks do not get so hungry ia tho night if their latest meal is of cracked graia. On the other hand, chicks fed only cracked grain grow less rapidly than others' having ground food as well as cracked grain. Ground food moistened, with milk gives mors return in growth of chicks than the same amount fed dry. ChicKs do welt, however, on a ration of cracked, grain and dry mash, and the labor cost is less than for the moist mash- (B 11, 13). This brings aown the expense, if the chicks are reared in large num bers. ' Where chickens are raised by liens, moist mash is often preferred. Some poultry-men keep dry' mash always before the chicks, however reared, and sjive one meal a day of moist mash. The chicks will usually eai- more of he jrnmnd food if fed in this way, though tho amount of moist mash should be limited., (hicks, under one pound in woight are said to do better on moist mash, with 'grain, lartrer chickens grow ing better on dry mash. i Hand-Feeding or Hopper-Feeding. The. hnpprr or some ssch device is practically a necessity iu dry feeding. lfojper-feeding takes less time than fcnnd-fefdinjr, andmny consider that chicks raised art crncked grain and hop per fed dry mash make ffuite as good mature fowls as those reared by the hand-feeding system (moist mash). With hopper feeding, it is possible to provide a constant snppfy of food which cannot be readily soiled by the chicks. For young chickens, hopper feeding both grain and mash is not advisable. The chicks settle down by the brain hopper, and gorge themselves, taking too little exercise. This would probably be dis astrous. The safest method is to feed the dry maeh (if used) in hoppers, hand feeding tha grain. Grit, charcoal, and fine cracked bone are hopper -fed; also beef 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 Bangs or Confinement. As a rule., tho more good range which can be given yonng chickens the better; FREE EGG CASES. F H. Schmals & Oo.. paid ertl (10, 000, established t908, want S00 more funm erg as regular shippers of fresh eggs each week and will send free on rekoast, by men tinning this paper, an egg ease. Highest market price guaranteed. Write today. Tags, prices free. Veai, hogs, poultry and hides also wanted. No eommtssions charged. P. H. SCHMALZ & CO. US Frost Street, Portland, Oregon. U. S. and Foreign Patents Obtained. Send Sketch and Description for Opinion as to Patentability. PETES HABERLDf, 200 Victor Bldg, Washington, D. 0. Phene Main 1711 LIFE HEALTH ACCIDENT One Rolicy POMAT?IOK VONTRACT J , though unlimited range is not necessary until they are a few weeks old. If the yards are too small, .he ground becomes filthy and may communicate disease. In small yards, the chicks get too little exercise, with resulting lack of muscular development; and greater care in feed ing is necessary. For young broods, a sufficiently large range, and ore which makes it possible to protect the chicks from accident and marauders, is best. Grass cut moder ately short, where shelter from the hot sun is provided, is about the right con dition. An orchard is a fine place for them, if they can b protected from hawks, crows, etc The older chicks may range in a sun flower patch, corn field, orchard, wood lot, or any convenient place where they can find insects and shelter. If allowed about the barn yard or pig sty, they ar in danger of being trodden upoa by the farm animals or eaten by the pigs. Farmers of Texas Tire of Prohibi tion Fad FARMERS of Texas, always zealous advocates of "temperance," have -had enough of '.'Prohibition." They have tried that fad to a finish and they nre done with it. This attitude explains why the Farm ers' Union of the Lone Star State ha passed pointed and emphatic resolutions touching the present campaign. That organization has said in the plainest of language that the need of the people is "constructive legislation." The pxpectedyhas happened in this connection. The Farmers'' Union has brought down on itself the explosive wrath of political preachers who talk "temperance," but who insist that "prohibition" and total "abstinence" are the only cure for the drink evil. But the leaders of the Farmers' Un ion are amply able to take care of themselves in an' argument of this kind. They have issued a letter in which thev demand that polities he kept out of, the pulpit, and in which farther they mix vitriol with their argument, thus: 'The religious preacher is the most capable servant, amTlhe political preach er the sorriest master the world has ever known. Wherever power is placed in the hands of the latter, they invaria bly become intolerant, bigoted and vic- Rules and Recipes won 't make per fect home baking without a good leavener. Crescent Baking Powder Is made to Insure a food raise and to sustain the risen dough your cakes can'! fall. ASK TOTJB GBOCEB 25o par lb. Orescent Mfg. Co. , . . Statu, Wash. ,NSUKANCBCO. iiT 1 HOME OFFICE SEATTLE, TT. 8. A. ions. "A preacher who graduates from the palpit into polities becomes a menace to good government. Likewise, a politician who occupies, the pulpit debaunebes the church and becomes a menace to religion. ' ' Political leaders may live ' wet ' and vote 'dry,' and the low standard of statecraft is not offended but when the church turns over the pulpit to of-' fice-seekers and their henchmen, tree Christianity has received a crushing blow, and hypocrisy runs rampant ia the altar, for it is written: 'Ye cannot serve two masters. ' " The Farmers' Union of Texas is fully justified in its stand. It is delivering an ultimatum to those alleged and mis taken reformers who make a business of confusing "temperance" and "pro hibition' The Century Dictionary defines tha word "Temperance" as follows: "Mod eration the observance of moderation. " "Habitual moderation in regard to tho indulgence of the natural appetites. Restrained or moderate indulgence. Ab stinence from all violence or excess from inordinate or unseasonable indulg ence, or from the use or pursuit of any thing injurious to moral or physical well-being. "Sobriety and frugality as temper ance in eating and drinking. Temper ance in the indulgence of joy or grief. Moderation in" the use of alcoholic" liquors as beverages. " ' - It is evident that the Farmers' t'nion of a "prohibition" state knows from hitter experience the exact difference' between "temperance" and "tetal ab stinence." "' ', '-' They pmpose to have '''temperance" and that is the reason why they have used language that udmit of no mis interpretation in telling "political preachers" where they belong, and warning all such to keep out of the fight The leaders of the Farmers ' Union propose to have their own way about it, too. They have built 1,r,00 churches in Texas. They have contributed $5,000,000 a year to religious organiza tions and they demonstrate that 75 per cent of the preachers in the state are on the farmers' payroll. The facts cited and tho arguments adduced ought to be enough to drive homo to every political preacher and mischief-maker in Texas the essential listinction between true "temper ance ' and prohibition. " (Seattle Times, May 24, 1914, Editorial Page 8. (Pakt Advertisement) ELITE PRiVATE BUSINESS COLLEGE 404 COMMERCIAL BLR., PORTLAND, OR. KAtm 1 DECKER, A. at 1 Principal. - Psrssul Attention, Individual Instruction. R&Uafacttsa Guaranteed. Positions lor Qrado ales. 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